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“It’s too dangerous!” they would say. “We’ll all end up inside if you force us to do this!”
But there was no need to force them.
They were a good crew and would do it for the love they had for me.
No sooner had I escaped from Ikmal than I wanted to turn around and break back into it!
It was madness.
I peered at the vastness of space and contemplated my future in it.
Would it be with Agatha?
Or without her?
9
AGATHA
I lay on the floor of my room peering up at the ceiling.
When the wind blew and ran its fingers across the material it produced beautiful waves like the seashore near my home back on Earth.
A seashore I was sure I would never see again.
I’d been given my own tent, perched between two others with a guard outside, his back to the roaring fire.
I peered out twice through the slit in the front, and both times, found him staring at me.
At least, his visor was peering directly at me.
Was he really staring at me or was he fast asleep?
With no way to know, I would take the threat seriously.
These were prison guards and they knew something about guarding prisoners.
And so here I lay, in a room in the middle of the desert beneath the stars.
I might as well be in a prison cell.
I dropped to my knees and felt at the room’s floor, searching for a gap to squeeze through.
There were no corners, no edges I could pry up.
I had to stop thinking of this room as a tent.
I was so close to escape, but yet again, had been thwarted.
But what did I think I would do even if I managed to escape?
I only survived as long as I did before thanks to Egara.
Without him, I would have been consumed long ago.
I laid back and tried not to get too comfortable.
If I stayed alert, maybe there would be an opening I could take advantage of.
