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129They were at the hotel in the twenty-four hour bar. %u201cWhat would you like to drink, Plum? %u201dKyle asked. %u201cGin, please,%u201d she replied.%u201cBar tender. A double Brandy and a double Gin,%u201d he said.The bartender brought the drinks over and Kyle said, %u201cCharge it to my room.%u201dThey sipped their drinks.%u201cTell me, Plum. How did you get here?%u201d He asked her.%u201cPhew. It%u2019s a tangled story. I was captured during the battle to seize my home world. I was brought here to be enslaved. The wanted to prostitute me but gave up after the first six men were killed, one after the other.%u201dHe knocked back the rest of his glass and ordered another, and then turned and said, %u201cYou killed them?%u201dShe nodded but said no more.He privately thought she was a beautiful woman and he knew and reflected on his promise to her, but everything about her remained a mystery. He will take her with him, but that didn't solve so many odd questions.%u201cWhy did they target me?%u201d Kyle asked.%u201cYou%u2019re a soldier. Your army send you soldiers here to be killed,%u201d she replied.He was shocked. He hadn%u2019t expected such an answer. %u201cDo you think your army wishes to pay you survivors a pension for the next 40 years? You believe you are sent here to receive an award but you are sent to be assassinated by the gangs who are paid by your superiors to do it. The army want the money to wage war not pay pensions.%u201dThe Brothel Chapter 2: Kill Kyle