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So it turned out Quin was just joking? Lekan silently agreed that her humour could really use some work. Still, she did seem pretty hungry, so she couldn't have been joking about that. She quickly changed the subject, so Lekan didn't bother pressing her about it any further.

"That's actually rather sweet of you to offer yourself as security," he said. "And considering the kind of people on this ship, I think it would be a good idea. As for where we could go in the meantime, I still remember some of the layout of another Exodus-class ship I was on about a year back, so there should probably be -"

Just then he was interrupted by a loud clang from nearby. Had they been on a cargo hauler, Lekan would have simply dismissed it as someone accidentally dropping a crate, but this was a passenger liner. One with quite a few synthetics aboard.

"We should probably check out what that noise was," he told Quin. "If it is what I think it is, then we just might find ourselves some work a lot sooner than expected..."