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I could still feel their heat.
I smiled at his thoughtfulness.
“Once the charcoal is dry, we can use it to catch larger prey,” he said.
Okay, so maybe not that thoughtful.
“Larger prey?” I said. “I thought we would be getting out of here soon?”
He nodded.
“We will, but only if things go to plan. And in my experience, few things go to plan.”
Egara slipped a black nail into the fish and slit it open.
He removed the bones and handed half the Sand Fish to me.
“I’m not sure I can eat all of it,” I said, remembering the earlier meal he only ate half of.
“Eat as much as you can. We’ll leave the rest out to dry and turn it into jerky for the journey tomorrow.”
I ended up consuming my half and eyed what remained of his meal with some jealousy.
Once again, he hadn’t eaten the entire meal.
“How can you get by on so little?” I said.
“Vulcarians have very slow metabolisms. We can go weeks without food, even when traipsing through a desert like this.”
Vulcarians were turning out to be very strange creatures indeed.
It was pitch dark in the desert at night and there was little light save that cast by a trio of small moons.
It was beautiful, I thought. Then again, everything was beautiful when you hadn’t seen anything but blank walls for so long.
I smiled and breathed in the chill night air.
I stretched, luxuriating in the freedom of space, and the fact there wasn’t another creature for miles around.
At least, not if we were lucky.
“Are you sure your friends will have left the shuttlecraft where they said they would?” I said.
“I’m sure,” Egara said. “They’re my crew, not my friends.”
“Can’t they be both?”
“Not if you are an effective captain. There must always be a line between captain and crew.”
“You’re their captain?” I said, surprised by this piece of information.
But I shouldn’t have been so surprised.
He was thoughtful, capable, and a great fighter.
Why shouldn’t he be the captain?
“They assured me they would drop off the shuttlecraft,” he said. “I don’t have faith in many things but I have faith in my men. If they said they are going to do something, I can assure you, they will do it.”
