Prelude to a Blinding Flash

“Shipmaster. Guessing by your radiological signature, you’ve got those nukes onboard.”
“Indeed. Failing to deny them to us, I suppose you happen to know of a generous arms merchant?”
“Gotta tell you, Rakkan, those things aren’t discriminating when they blow. Ash outlines on walls, fallout, all that.”
“A fact my bidders pay well for.”
“Gonna pay a bit less for incomplete ones. You left a piece behind.”
Rakkan rolled slitted eyes at Dunn’s wasting of his time. “This piece being?”
“The detonators.”
Rakkan lifted his head curiously as the smuggler’s transmission cut out, reptilian brain warming to the implication.
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