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EGARA
The shuttlecraft complained when we re-entered the atmosphere.
Fire leaped over the windows and trailed over its external shell.
Something crunched, snapped, and then splintered off completely.
I shut my eyes and ignored it all.
I wasn’t sure the craft would survive the trip.
But that didn’t matter.
What mattered was finding Agatha.
I had spent less than ten seconds staring at the emptiness of space.
The only thing emptier was the hole left inside me, an emptiness I had lived with my entire life.
All the booty in the world couldn’t fill it.
Neither could the accolades of being the most fearsome pirate in the galaxy.
Only she could give me meaning.
Agatha.
She was my only chance to turn my life around, to do something else.
I only hoped it wasn’t too late.
I had no plan of how I would break into the prison, how I would locate her.
None of that mattered either.
The craft screamed and I gripped the base of my chair with both hands.
I must have looked like a ball of molten fire as the shuttlecraft streaked across the night sky.
Within seconds, the fire was doused and I was falling head-first into the giant sand dunes below.
I seized the controls and pulled up, easing the shuttlecraft into a gentle glide.
Far below, the frozen ocean splayed out before me as far as the eye could see.
“Locate Ikmal prison,” I said.
“Ikmal prison located,” Computer said.
A holographic skin dropped over the windscreen and a three-dimensional image swelled from it, revealing the contours of the desert below.
A beacon alighted in the far distance, a simple yellow arrow pulsing on the horizon.
I brought the shuttlecraft down closer to the surface, hugging it as closely as I dared.
I peered at the undulating waves and focused on heading toward that beacon.
The prison guards had the use of land vehicles.
