Till the Last Star Fades

by Christopher Sisk

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“Hello? ... Pet? ... Anyone home? ... Petra?”

“Huh?” Petra shook her head and refocused her gaze on the glistening black emptiness ahead. “Sorry, Darv, I must’ve dazed out for a minute.”

“Yeah, you started drifting too,” her companion teased back. “Let’s just get this med-freighter to sector seven-alpha then you can daze away till the last star fades.”

The mere mention of their mission gave Petra a little sick feeling in her gut. No problem, she thought. Two starbirds to escort an unarmed med-freighter through three Deronian sectors.

“Remind me again why we took this job.” Darv joked into his helmet mic.

Petra shifted her wing lift to bring her bird side by side with Darvs. To her left she could see the smooth curves of the modified extank enclosures Darv had installed on their birds only a yarin ago. “You have something better to be doing, Darvus, than earning ten each?”

“Not dying?”

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Till the Last Star Fades

    Emotes' Buddy Icon Emotes

    Posted 8 months ago

    Its cute. I think this will be very good chain-of-stories! Good luck! =]

  2. Till the Last Star Fades

    Christopher Sisk's Buddy Icon Christopher Sisk

    Posted 8 months ago

    Thanks, I have another part to add soon.

  3. Till the Last Star Fades

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 8 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great banter, and woohoo for yarns! Isn’t that an old Battlestar Galatica term? Good, solid sci-fi fun with enough detail to give a nice idea of what all is going on.
    LoA

  4. Till the Last Star Fades

    Christopher Sisk's Buddy Icon Christopher Sisk

    Posted 8 months ago

    @THX 0477 Thanks and spot on about the ‘yahren’, but I’ve changed the spelling a bit.

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