He frowned at the Scav girl and said again, slowly, "Look--I have authority from Prince Salva to leave immediately to be about royal business on the surface! Check AGAIN, you dimwitted Scav bitch!" She blinked back tears of fear and shakily said, "SIR! Illustrous Human master, the City-Central Computer doesn't recognize your autorization! The whole city is in a state of lock down after Trashtown shot down one of our Trow Work-Bees! Please let me try again!" 64-25619f bowed and scrapped before the angry bounty-hunter, as she punched in his ID code and waited for the computer's denial again. A hologram of Princess Safira appeared before her. Princess Safira remarked coldly, "My brother, Salva, just informed me of his latest hijinks. The 'bounty-hunter' Jaffa Rajjaf, is allowed entry to the surface. The passage is allowed for three days." The Scav girl was flummoxed by the appearance of the Princess' appearance before her. She frowned and created the transponder chip for the bounty-hunter's craft. Jaffa took the chip from her and headed for the door. He paused and said over his shoulder, "Sorry about the 'bitch' comment. This whole business is just....weird. Tense. You heard the Princess. Weird." 64-25619 was flustered by Jaffa's comment. NOONE human had ever apologized toher, much less one of those heartless bounty-hunters! Jaffa stode toward his rebuilt police-aircar, when the Scav girl emboldened by his comment, called to him. "Sir? Do you know what is going on? There has been shooting today..." He paused for a moment. He called over his shoulder, "Dunno, really. Some official from here shot the shit out of the Atmospheric Purifier down there, which shut down the power-plant. Trashtown shot back and croaked one of our Trow. Now blood's been spilled. Dunno where it's headed. Stupid. The whole thing is just...stupid." Jaffa made a mental not to check with his girl-friend, Marr, at the trashtown hospital. If anyone in town knew anything, she was better than a news-service. He jumped in the old police vehicle and powered it up. He knew he had a long night ahead of him. --TO BE CONTINUED!-- Media is poser 6