Senjen did not have to take any time to think on what his answer would be. “Oh, I’m going to be getting to work on paying off this body. No question on that. With that much debt, I was to be very responsible and everything about paying it off.”

“Well, maybe you can be smart sometimes?” Jess chuckled. 

As much as Jess might have wanted to move on from the topic, Senjen was still feeling curious. Now that they knew about her sister, there were parts of this job that were not quite making sense. They had been told that Jess wanted to use the cargo to get an “in” with a smuggling outfit on Korit, but he doubted that anyone they had seen on that outpost was a part of that. Why did her sister need to take a look at them first. 

“Anyways...we’ll obviously keep the secret about your sister,but...can we at least know why? I mean, it just seems weird to me why it was so important for them to look at the cargo. Is there some doubt that they are what we thought they were? And well...you got the full payment from your sister, not the buyer. What if that smuggling outfit doesn’t end up buying them?”

Jess sighed, leaning back in her seat while pinching the bridge of her nose between her fingers. “Okay...fine. I can tell you’re not going to stop wondering, and you already know about her, so I might as well tell you. My sister and I, our parents own a...certain company. Not one you would have heard of; it’s more local to our homeworld, but it is a tech company. One that has been having problems our parents are too proud to solve. Major interstellar corporations out-compete us, not only in scale, but in the dirty tricks they use in business. They don’t hesitate to engage in a little corporate espionage to learn what their competitors are up to, and maybe reverse engineer their products. They do it to us, but we don’t do it in return. My sister and I don’t want to see the company just die out, so we want to even the playing field.”