Epilogue
Ishini
Purchasing a used shuttle on credit and crossing the neutral zone into Mangrel space on the vague hope of tracking down your hopefully not dead sister maybe wasn’t my best decision. But family is family, and Skylar would do the same for me.
Well, she’d do something smarter, but between the two of us, I got the guts and she got the brains. As they say, you gotta work with what you have.
This shuttle is supposed to have a rudimentary stealth system. Hopefully it works. I activate it.
According to the last ping between what has to have been her escape pod and the rest of the group’s, her course should have put her near this habitable planet.
Sky would have gone there. If she made it—and I know she did—she’ll have had enough ration bars to last three 10-day cycles. It took me two to contact my hacker friend and get a burner card so I could pay for this ship. I’ll be in a heap of trouble when I return to Federation space. But Sky is worth it.
I will not let my sister die out here. Even if it means I have to spend ten years in the mines paying off my debts.
“Sky,” I whisper into the empty cockpit. “Hold on, sis, I’m coming for you.”
The End.