" Why?" Listen, can we discuss this outside? How long do you think a branded thief will be left in peace looking into your window?"One minute later we...stood face to face at the corner of the hostel, or as face to face as was possible when she was about a foot shorter than me. It was night now, and the yellow flames of the whale-oil lamps did not do much to illuminate the darkness, but I could see that she was wearing a colored (blue, perhaps?) coat now, instead of the white slave robes I had. Apparently there was another good but less-spectacularly-situated hostel nearer the town centre where the trickle of passing wet-season backpackers could stay. As the threesome were heading south and as Natalie and Lucas were heading north Aat wanted them to pass this information on to any backpackers they passed heading for Phuket.Aat looked up at the girl on the end beside me thoughtfully. “Pakpao, have you thought what you might do?” he asked her kindly in English, as though it had just. Mutant John wants to kiss me a lot, so I refrain from my preferred red shade and go for the dark peach lippy I had on when we first met.It was some months previously, and I had been traded on the Love Exchange, which meant I had sex to repay other people’s debts. Mutant John is a large, sixty-year-old Hell’s Angel with long grey hair, a beard, and a Harley as monstrous as he is. He was owed drug money by a man called Ronson, who I had literally whipped into a frenzy to repay the debt owed him a. The inner planet of the system was a marked contrast to Vagol. The Vagols called the planet Inrha. It was different in that it was a desert planet, except for the oceans covering a lot of its area. There was no life on its surface, though the Vagols said that there was life in the oceans. It appeared that the Wasps had looked at Inrha, but had abandoned it because there were no life forms there for them to exploit.Vagol was taking advantage of the technology they had captured from the Wasps to.