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The figure ran his eyes over him and pursed those purple lips.
“That would depend on who’s asking,” he said.
“My name is Egara. I’m the captain of a pirate ship and I would like to open negotiations.”
“You seem to be missing your ship, captain,” Piggy said with a sneer.
“It’s not missing,” Egara said. “It’s out there with my crew. But there’s one thing it’s missing and that’s my shuttlecraft.”
Piggy’s eyes moved to one side and a smile curled his features.
“I’m not sure we have a shuttlecraft among our stock,” he said. “I suggest you turn back and look elsewhere.”
Piggy turned, making the leather of his uniform squeak.
Egara moved so fast, it was like a magic trick.
One second my hand rested on his, and the next, his hand was wrapped around Piggy’s upper arm.
The figure turned back, just enough for him to find Egara out the corner of his eye.
His attention dropped to Egara’s hand resting on his arm.
Egara didn’t release his hold.
“My crew left me a shuttlecraft that I believe you now have in your possession,” Egara said, his tone turning cold. “You would be wise to return it to me.”
Piggy stared at Egara but not for long.
He turned his head to one side where a loud clacking noise arrested my attention.
I gasped as a fellow piglike creature dressed in identical long flowing robes of black rounded a shallow sand dune.
Another appeared on the other side, penning us in.
I might have shown I was surprised but Egara didn’t.
Maybe he’d heard them there, or maybe he hadn’t, either way, his body remained tense.
Those twin shivs tucked in his pants remained within easy reach.
The figures were armed with strange weapons shaped like crossbows.
I suspected they didn’t fire bolts of cold metal but unloaded from the glowing glass orb of plasma underneath.
“We wondered why the guards and their drones were out in full force,” Piggy said. “I suppose now we know. If we were to shoot you down, it wouldn’t make much difference to us. The guards would be relieved we’d dealt with one of their escaped prisoners.”
His eyes drifted over to me.
“And returned their… property to them,” he said.
The armed guard closest to me shifted his target from Egara to me.
I’d seen Egara fight.
He could take out two, maybe all three of the figures before they could confidently defend themselves.
But with me present, I suspected fighting was the last thing on Egara’s mind.
