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Liz sat in the corner chair with Judas, the bag of chips, beside her.  Opposite them sat Captain Verdana with his head in his hands. 
   
Verdana lifted his head and said, “I need to know if there were any other smugglers.  Everyone on your planet is in danger because of this.”

“I don’t know what your talking about,” Liz persisted.  “Sugar is all we have.  God, you can’t tell me that Sugar is illegal in space!”

“Only one place in the universe has the substance like sugar,” Verdana said.  “Nowhere else can we get it to grow.  Earth is the only planet it grows on.”