Rin's image appears on a transmission recording, her eyes livid with anger
"So it WAS one of you!"
Clenching her fists
"A ransom.. For a human being.. I used to put up with you, but seeing you pull something like THIS?! Anna.. Credits.."
Pausing, the video skipping to a later time frame.
"Thirty Million Credits.. Hell, ill throw in a little more if she comes back UNHARMED from whatever you freaks are planning to do with her in the sweet time you take to make a reply."
"All I want is Anna. Get her back to me, and you will have your credits."
Cutting the transmission and collapsing on a chair behind her, burying her head in her hands. "Now how do I get the credits.."
Now this is amusing. Amusing because we often send our prisoners directly to the Cardamine fields rather than offering an almost first class treatment like we've done with your precious Anna... And you still call a ransom such an atrocity?
She chose to annoy our raiding parties across the Taus and thus exposed herself to this hard situation you're facing now, so be kind and blame her for this, not us.
Now I hope you and Anna have wealthy friends in the Guild or somewhere else, because thirty millions is an insult. Don't want to hear anything below seventy millions.
I always knew you were greedy, but this.. I think she was good enough to you, not anyone would give you a chance to carry on if you didn't cause trouble clenching her fists off camera thinking for a moment. Seventy million.. No.. Make that a hundred as LONG as you keep her in a cell and feed her. Nothing more to her.
Wire that one hundred million to The.Flamboyant.Maltese once you have gathered them. Meanwhile, I assure you that she'll be fed and granted a decent cell.
I want to see her. Seeing what you have done, I do not know that you will hold up your side of the deal. Let me see her, and you will get your credits.
Sending a glare at the recording camera. The Freeport sounds like a good enough place for this.. Outside of course.
One hundred million credits will be all yours.. Just let me have her back..