Pirates of the Outrigger Rift
“They were arranged like spokes shooting out from a central hub. Spaced evenly down the spokes were the individual berths, flat concrete segments crisscrossed by conduits and cables, highlighted here and there by spaceships rising majestically to the sky.
Protected walkways ran underground with blast doors leading to the outside at every berth, open until the time of launch.
Sai stood for a time, then began pacing back and forth at the blast doors to dock B, berth ten. She’d been waiting... an hour and a half.
“Shit!” she said for the hundredth time.
She heard someone whistling down the walkway. Sai ducked in the threshold and readied her blade. The echoing tunnel prevented her from locating where the sound was coming from.
Then she heard singing.
“… The next thing I heard was that lonesome sound, the drive kicking in, as they left the ground.MoreLess
Protected walkways ran underground with blast doors leading to the outside at every berth, open until the time of launch.
Sai stood for a time, then began pacing back and forth at the blast doors to dock B, berth ten. She’d been waiting... an hour and a half.
“Shit!” she said for the hundredth time.
She heard someone whistling down the walkway. Sai ducked in the threshold and readied her blade. The echoing tunnel prevented her from locating where the sound was coming from.
Then she heard singing.
“… The next thing I heard was that lonesome sound, the drive kicking in, as they left the ground.MoreLess
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