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I shrugged.
“My crew got caught.”
“What’s that got to do with you? They should have been more careful.”
“They got caught because my plan didn’t work. It’s every captain’s duty to protect his crew. Besides, the bounty out for me was far larger than what was on their heads.”
Agatha shook her head.
“So much for you being mutinous pirates,” she said, resuming her walk.
“We are pirates.”
“Not if you believe in honor and duty and all that jazz. Pirates on Earth are out for themselves. They would never hand themselves over to protect their crew.”
“It’s the Vulcarian way.”
“Well, it’s not the traditional pirate way, that I can tell you.”
I didn’t know how human pirates operated on their planet but out here, there was a certain code of conduct.
“You really handed yourself in to save your crew?” Agatha said.
“It was my duty as their captain. Besides, breaking one member out of prison is a lot easier than breaking out six.”
She smiled and shook her head in disbelief.
She coughed and barely managed to turn her head to one side before she let rip with a full-throated bark.
It was the lack of oxygen in her lungs, making it difficult for her to breathe.
I slapped her on the back but it didn’t help.
There was only one thing that would.
I spun her around and pressed my lips to hers.
She stiffened in my arms and pushed me back, gasping for air.
“I can’t breathe!” she said. “Kissing me now isn’t going to help!”
Except she was no longer gasping.
She sucked oxygen in through her nose and mouth, her passageways already clearing up.
She frowned at me.
“Yeah, well, it still doesn’t give you the right to kiss me whenever you want!”
“I was the victor, remember? Technically, you still belong to me.”
She poked her tongue at me.
It was a strange thing. In my culture, it meant she was sick. It clearly meant something else to humans.
“I don’t belong to anyone,” she said.
“That kiss I gave you won’t help you for long. If you want to pass through this planet’s atmosphere for longer periods, we’re going to have to do a lot more than that.”
