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I thought I heard a footstep around the corner from where Agatha was waiting but each time I turned to look in her direction, she wasn’t there.
I must have imagined her gazing at my naked body the way I had hers.
We settled down and began munching away.
“It seems strange,” Agatha said, chomping on a ghax snack.
“What does?”
“Your crew didn’t leave a shuttlecraft here and yet they took the time to put food in the statue? And had the statue carved so you would recognize it? Why would they do that?”
“To irritate me? To show they only have a little love for me? Maybe it’s some sick and twisted game.”
“Maybe,” Agatha said with the air of someone who didn’t quite buy it.
I guess it did seem a little strange. If they didn’t expect me to escape, why provide me with food resources like this?
And if they thought I could get this far, they must have known there was a chance I could get off the planet.
And if I could do that, there was no reason I couldn’t find them and my ship.
So why not boobytrap the statue?
I shook my head.
Because my crew wasn’t like that, I told myself. My crew were good men. Honorable.
If they agreed to leave a shuttlecraft here, they would have done it.
Something must have prevented them from doing so.
It didn’t help me much with my current situation but it cheered me up a little, at least.
We munched on our snacks, a welcome break from the Desert Fish jerky we’d eaten all day.
I loved watching Agatha.
She was most interesting when she didn’t know I was watching.
She liked to peer around at her surroundings and take it in, thinking and considering, her lips making invisible words she didn’t speak out loud.
Then she would turn and glance at me and her smile would fade from her face.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
She frowned and pursed her lips.
Yes, I thought. Being stuck out here with no shuttlecraft wasn’t good but it was far from the worst fate I could imagine.
At least I wasn’t alone.
Even better, I was here with her.
“What’ll we do tomorrow?” she said.
“Keep moving through the desert. We need to do some surveillance and see what we’re up against. There are other prisons on this moon. They might not be as intense security-wise as the one we came from.”
