The streets were far more crowded than Lyla would have liked. This many people made it difficult to work without drawing attention to herself.
She glanced down to the datapad in her hand and flicked over to map, frowning at the display as she double-checked the location. This was the place, unfortunately; the hard lines were underground and the access hatch was right here in the middle of the street. What idiot designed this, she thought irritably to herself.
Sighing, she dropped a small locator beacon down the garage and then turned to find a second entrance that wasn't so exposed. It would mean crawling around through the sewers for far longer than she'd wanted, but it was better than getting caught before she even started.
Some Hunter was counting on her to get into the security and patch the feed to him, though she didn't even know his name. It'd been a third party hire and her boss thought her the best for this particular job.
That karking jerk was lounging in the cantina, probably with his fourth or fifth drink by now. Meanwhile, Lyla was trying to figure out how to go digging around in a sewer. He was going to get the pay and then give her a portion of the earnings.
She really, really hated Dennet.
Her comm chimes and her device pinged to life, letting her know that the Hunter's crew had touched down.
She was running behind.
Jogging down the alleyways, she finally found an appropriate hatch and yanked it open, hoping that no one saw her as she slipped inside.
She heard Dennet's slurred speech through the comm bud in her ear. "Hey, hey. Glad y'could join us, mate."
Lyla couldn't tell if he was talking to the mandalorian, or to some bloke at the cantina.
The stench hit her nose, and she nearly decided to quite right then and there. But she wasn't the sort to leave people who needed her hanging, and she never half-assed a job. Tugging a bandana over her nose and mouth, Lyla hopped up onto the pipes that ran over the top of the sewer and clipped her safety harness onto the metal tubing. It would keep her from falling into the grime below while she shimmied the distance back to the access panel.
"Hunter, give me a few minutes to get into place. I'll let you know when I'm ready." She muttered into the commlink, keeping her voice down.
Dennet was laughing boisterously through the link still.
Stars, she hated that man.