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“Can’t we rest here for a minute?”
“No. We have to keep going. That’s if we want to reach the shuttlecraft as soon as we can.”
I sat up.
“What shuttlecraft?”
It was news to me.
“The one my gang put here for me to use to escape after I got free of the prison,” Egara said.
I had no idea he had everything planned out.
By the look of him, I never would have thought he was capable of planning.
He looked much more of a fly by the seat of his pants kind of guy.
I was so exhausted, I got up in stages, as no part of my body was ready to carry out the entire movement just yet.
I rocked to one side, lifted one leg, placed a foot, and used the bent knee to hoist myself up into a standing position.
I stood up straight and wavered uncertainly before catching my feet.
I extended the straw to Egara, who waved his hand.
“Keep it,” he said. “You’ll need it later.”
“Why would I need it? You said we should reach the shuttlecraft soon.”
“Soon, but not immediately.”
I tucked the straw in my pocket.
I was excited at the idea of escaping this moon.
I had lucked out with coming across Egara when I had.
Or was I?
The truth was, I’d been shot at, chased, almost raped, kidnapped and abducted, and that wasn’t taking into account the situation I now found myself in.
Even if meeting him hadn’t been the greatest stroke of luck, he was still the best shot I had at getting out of the prison.
What other way was there to escape than this?
And why did he decide he would take me with him?
I was nothing but a liability.
I had no fighting skills, had no resources.
I was just another hungry mouth to feed.
It was then that I heard a rushing sound.
The stream was too small and pathetic to produce that kind of sound unless it widened around the next bend and turned into raging rapids, which I very much doubted.
I peered out at the sand dunes but no wisps of sand whipped off their peaks from a strong wind.
