“We’ll hit you again, Mr. Nixon. Maybe not here, but we’ll find you.”
If whoever this is really is everywhere then nowhere is safe. He checks the monitors again. There’s nothing suspicious there. Not yet. So, for now, this may be the safest place he can be.
He looks again at Shaine’s card. There’s another set of numbers on there. Nixon recognizes them as coordinates. He turns to the navigation console and inputs the numbers. The ship processes the coordinates for just a second then a plotted course to Planet Azken appears. It’s going to be a long flight.
Nixon unbuckles from the pilot’s seat and stands. He pulls off his cloak and empties the pockets. He puts all of it, the blaster and the case, on the top of the dash in front of him then folds his cloak over twice and sets it in the seat meant for the co-pilot.
He looks out the front of the ship, and it’s nothing but the black of space. He sits again in the pilot’s seat and grabs the case as he does. He rolls it over in his hand. It’s smooth surface is reflecting the lights from the dash. The thin seam that runs around the case’s middle catches the grooves of his fingers. Three buttons are slightly sunken into one side just above that seam.
He pushes the buttons, and they softly beep. He tries to work out the combination, but the case never comes open. Never even close.
He tosses it, and it tumbles across the dash.
“What have you gotten into, Shaine? What’s in that case that can be causing this much trouble?”
END
Continue Trevor Nixon’s Galaxy-Hopping Adventure in Episode 2
Galaxy Run:
Umel
Blaster fire has a way of focusing the mind. For Trevor Nixon, that focus was on one thing—survival.
Off Exte, he’s safe. For now. But he’s stuck with a ship that’s nearly shaken itself apart in his escape, and it’s forced him to land on a planet he’s never seen and work with people he doesn’t know. All in an effort to keep his mission of redemption and revenge going.
But how long can he lay low and stay hidden when he keeps making enemies?
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