"Timothy Zahn - Hero of Cartao 1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zahn Timothy)

"Ever been inside?"

"No one but employees get to go in," the other said, his lip twisting
with disgust and resentment. 'Them, and the high and mighty."

"Like me?" Doriana asked.


Kerseage glanced at him, as if suddenly remembering just who his
passenger was. "No, no, I was thinking about Lord Binalie's chums," he
backtracked hastily. 'The Prackla Trade Council-that sort of crowd."

"You don't think much of them?"

Kerseage shrugged again, uncomfortably this time. "It's nothing to do
with me," he muttered. "I got a shuttle; I fly people places. That's all."


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"I see," Doriana said, returning his attention to the manufacturing plant
now passing directly beneath them. Clearly, Kerseage didn't want to say any
more.


But then, he didn't have to. Like everything else he ever did, Doriana
had made sure to research Cartao before coming here and hiring this particular
man to bring him across the sparsely settled planet to Spaarti Creations. The
cargo transport company Kerseage had once owned had been inadvertently run out
of business two years earlier by a poorly worded regulation the Prackla Trade
Council had issued after the Battle of Geonosis.
Kerseage's appeal was still crawling its way through the system, but by
now the issue was essentially moot. His company was gone, and he clearly
blamed Lord Binalie for it.


"What about the plant's satellite facilities?" he asked, his eyes
flicking around the forested areas north and west of the main facility. 'The
buildings where they store raw materials and finished product."

"You mean the three Outlinks?"

"Right," Doriana said. "Where are they?"

"I don't know, exactly," Kerseage said. 'The closest one's supposed to be
about three kilometers northeast, just past that big gray-topped worker
barracks thing." He pointed.