"By all means," Jack gestures for Kidd to enter first. It's plenty loud, the harder for the two of them to be overheard. Jack moves to a table, and takes enough time to order a drink, waits for them to be alone before beginning.

"You were asking about the Queen? I know very little, but even that is telling, because nobody knows very much. Most of the regular people are being kept in the dark about the fact that she's missing at all, and Biggs and Wedge are putting on a very complicated show to keep anyone from catching on. And yet, it doesn't seem so straightforward as 'Queen vanishes, retainers profit.' If anything, those two are getting a lot more hassle over the fact that they don't have whatever information the Queen apparently did."