At least Chewie was still alive. He could be found and rescued, potentially.Leia turned back to him, her expression soft and her voice sullen. “Afte...r the battle, Jabba’d had his fill of death and carnage. His mind turned to his other appetites. The ugly worm announced he’d thought of another use for the lovebirds.”Han’s eyes went wide. “Meaning ... us?”Leia unfolded her arms and strode to him, placing her right hand on his side.“Yes.”“So, what does he want?”She pressed her buxom curves on him. Now the bank was saying they were overdrawn and the mortgage payments hadn’t been met.Karen had never really looked at their bank statements, that was always Richard’s domain and she had been happy for him to be in charge of their future, secure in the knowledge that he knew finance better than she did and would look after his family. She had gone to the cabinet where she knew he kept all their financial records and found it was locked, she searched around but couldn’t find the key. We advanced about 10 klicks before we ran into our first action. A Hawk that was scouting ahead reported that there was a column of Bustol trucks headed our way, and they did not seem to be aware of us. This looked like the perfect chance for an ambush, and we might be able to salvage some trucks from the encounter.I ordered the APC drivers to move off the road into the trees on our left. I didn't want APCs on both sides of the road because I was afraid of injuries from friendly fire in this. Had I been thinking clearly, I would have realized that Dr. Gefuhlgut could make another copy of the photograph. What I couldn't have known was that he had a tape recorder in the side pocket of his lab coat.SETTLEMENT REACHED IN METABOLEAN CASEChicago - Class action lawyers for thousands of woman made hirsute by Metabolean expressed 'gratification' with the terms of a settlement reached with the pharmaceutical giant which manufactured the ill-fated diet pill. The multi-billion dollar settlement.