“Why are the lights on in the apartment?” I asked myself, as I never left them on. The answer that immediately came to mind was that someone was i... there and had a light on.Switching the keys to my left hand, I drew my service weapon, used the keys to unlock the door, and pushed it open to stand there in the doorway for a number of seconds looking into the apartment. There was one person in there sitting on the sofa by the end table with the lamp on. She had a closed book in her hands.“Good. - a year. Yes, you did hear that right: one hundred thousand dollars a year. So you see I would be earning enough for both of us, and so if you could not find a job down here, so what? I would be earning enough for both of us, so we would not starve."Steve had listened to all this without saying a word. "Kyle, far be it from me to stop you in your upward career movements, but there is no way that I could live with you if I felt I couldn't pay my way. So if we were to move done here, and I say. ? Usually for this sort ofprocedure Jacen would have undertaken matters at the units main HQ on Coruscantor aboard their star-destroyer, the Anakin Solo, but he could not risk any butthe most loyal personnel seeing the prisoner.?Nor could he risk any force-sensitive individual, not even hisapprentice Ben, being anywhere near where what was about to happen or where ithad taken place. The Sith woman looked at Jacen as heexamined the screen. Under her secret tutelage the son of Han and Leia solo. “So, you see, I have a business proposition for you. I’ll resign my Myanmar junta post, let you declare Matthew Kumar dead, come out into the open as a real, live goblin, thus enabling you to wed Princess Theodora easier ... make her your fourth wife. But I want something in return ... I want my people liberated as much as you can make it happen, from all places where they’re held captive. And I want some land on which to settle us.“I will take a goblin mate or two, give up on interbreeding.