Scouts
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“We’re under way,” I said.
Valka followed my eyes upward. “It makes sense. They’d have to keep moving to stay ahead of the Fleet.” She tugged my arm. “Come on. I want to get in some low gravity. My back is bothering me.”
The boulevard was full of activity. Most folks wore fairly ordinary coveralls of the same sort you’d see on any station. But here and there, I saw men, women, and newgens wearing loose shirts and baggy trousers or skirts, along with shiny black boots and gloves. Each one had a nasty-looking pistol hanging from a heavy black belt. Everyone else was giving them plenty of room, so we made sure to stay out of their way, as well.
The Warplight Hourly Hotel wasn’t far down the boulevard, which was a good thing. By the time we got there, Valka was getting sore. We stopped in the nicely decorated but small lobby only long enough to get registered at the desk and went immediately to our room.
The bed could have been taken from a Scout ship. The surface and controls were identical. The walls had a programmable holographic interface set to display a starscape complete with dazzling galaxies and nebulae. The bed looked like it was floating in the void.
Valka whistled. “They’d never get away with this back on the station.”
The vista was more than a little unsettling. “No doubt. Mind if I pick something less disturbing?”
“Please. I already feel like I’ve given myself to the void just by coming here and joining the Pirates.”
I picked a simple pattern of red curtains. It made the room look smaller, but after the endless void, it was welcome.
We stripped off our clothes and Valka laid down on her side in the center of the bed, letting out a relaxed sigh. I snuggled up behind her, folding one arm under my head and draping the other over her body.
“Can I take a little nap first?”
“Of course.”
She yawned. “And maybe a shower afterward?”
“Absolutely. Portcon?”
The face didn’t appear anywhere, but the computer’s voice came softly from the console by the door. “Yes, Ward Dizen?”
“I’d like some soft music please. And wake us in a half an hour.”
Music began playing, a simple, ethereal tune with a simple rhythm in the background. After a moment, I recognized the clicking beat as the sound a rotating neutron star makes when the radio signal is converted into sound waves. We had studied them in Astronavigation. How long had it been since I was in that class? It seemed like a lifetime ago.
Valka’s breathing turned soft and regular. I lay next to her for a few minutes, just enjoying the fact that we were safe, fed, warm, and together. Nobody had us on their schedule, nobody had us on their watch list, and nobody had us in their sights.
We could just be us.
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