[It's exotic to the young woman from Cardalek, though. Exotic and disgusting, but that's another matter, and one she's too polite to mention, even if her nose does wrinkle a little when he exhales.]

If the real thing's half of what they say it is, it could be profitable enough to crash the economy of half a sector. If that's what the one who claims it wants to do with it. [She cares as much about profit as the next Tradeliner, but using Fortuna to get obscenely rich strikes her as thinking far too small.]

That's something I haven't thought of, though. What if we are being watched, and not just by SUPERBIA? There could be people out there betting on which of us they think will win. That'd be lucrative, wouldn't it?