Perry didn't waste time. He moved to a corner and placed an encrypted call to a number he hadn't dialed in a long time. Muted conversation snippets drifted over. David and Sophia could only wait anxiously.
After about fifteen minutes, Perry ended the call and returned.
"An old friend. Still 'in the system', does occasional 'clean-up' work," Perry said succinctly. "He's offering two hundred thousand credits. Cash, no traces. Condition is we forget this thing exists, never speak of it again."
"T-Two… two hundred thousand?!" Sophia stammered, her eyes wide as saucers, as if hearing a fairy tale. It was an unimaginable sum for her.
David was stunned too. He knew it was valuable, but not this valuable! Two hundred thousand! He'd have to work in the mines for years, without spending a credit
