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“How much further to the shuttlecraft?” she said.
“About a day’s walk if we don’t stop too often.”
We watched as the twin suns rose and pirouetted across the sky, dancing in each other’s everlasting embrace.
It was mid-morning by the time Agatha began to wheeze and struggle to breathe in the oppressive rising heat.
She would have removed her shirt but it provided her with some much-needed protection against the blistering suns.
For me, the temperature was about right for a nice stroll through a desert.
I kept my focus on the sky for any blinking lights or signs of the guards’ drones that could be circling overhead.
I didn’t want them to get the drop on us the way they had last time.
It was blind luck they hadn’t discovered us instead of the other prisoner.
I really had no idea how the other prisoner had managed to escape Ikmal.
He couldn’t have come through the same gate we had.
The guards wouldn’t have made the same mistake twice and allowed it to remain open.
There must be another way out but for the life of me, I couldn’t think what it was.
Hopefully, I wouldn’t need to know.
I had no intention of heading back to that place.
Especially not when I was so close to escaping for good.
“There’s something I’ve been wondering,” Agatha said.
“What?”
“You’re the captain of your crew, right?”
“Right.”
“So, why were you the one to get caught and sent to this place and the rest of your crew got away?”
“They didn’t get away. I did.”
She frowned at me.
“So, how did you end up here?”
“I handed myself over to the bounty hunters.”
She came to a stop.
The beads of sweat gathering on her forehead broke rank and abseiled down her face.
“You did what?”
“I handed myself over.”
“Why would you do that?”
