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It must be the cloud of sand messing up their line of fire.
The whirring cone drill bit couldn’t have helped matters.
I entered the hangar and found my shuttlecraft hovering, its engines glowing as they defied gravity and turned around.
The hatch door was open but it swung away from me as it turned on the spot.
Through the front window, I made out Agatha, sitting in the pilot seat, in control.
Her eyes alighted on me and we shared a grin.
A thin layer of sweat dampened my brow at the pain of my dislocated arm, but it didn’t matter.
All that mattered was her.
And escaping with her.
Then her grin broke and her eyes fell and she shouted a warning, one I couldn’t hear over the shuttlecraft’s hum and the grinding crunch of the giant drill bit.
I dropped immediately and rolled to one side from her warning, not knowing what was behind me.
A bolt of plasma struck the floor and melted the metal grating.
I kept rolling until I passed around a tall collection of artifacts neatly arranged on a shelf that stretched to the ceiling.
The bolts of plasma chased me, tearing up the grating in my wake.
I came to a stop behind the shelf but my assailant continued to fire, blasting the items off the shelves like sliding targets at a traveling fairground.
The shuttlecraft’s engines whirred and bolted forward, striking a clutch of Draw’s guards and knocking them off their feet.
I could see them now through a gap in the shelving unit.
The shuttlecraft knocked them back again and they lost their feet in the gathering swirl of dust.
The shuttlecraft’s ass waved side to side.
I got to my feet and ran toward it, hurling myself inside.
“Egara!” Agatha yelled.
“Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!” I screamed back.
“Computer, take us out of here!” Agatha screamed over the overbearing screams.
The shuttlecraft banked and took us away, ascending into the sky at a sharp but not precipitous angle.
I crouched and waited as Agatha ran to me and kissed me on the face, the cheeks, the forehead.
“You’re okay!” she said.
“Mostly,” I said.
She glanced at my arm and her eyes turned round with concern.
“It’s all right,” I said.
I ran a hand through her hair and smiled at her.
