Chapter Seven
Tina returned to the cabin, her cheeks glowing. She wasn’t sure what to think. Rex was still her baby and she didn’t want to lose him yet. But it was amazing that she even had thoughts about what he might do to girls in locked shower cubicles.
The movement of the ship stopped and a message came from the station that the docking tube was about to be connected.
“Do you see those ships over there?” Finn asked. He pointed an outside camera at a section of the docking rig where a number of ships were moored. They were ugly things, dark and square, the surface weathering consistent with having spent considerable time in deep space.
“I presume those are pirate ships?” Tina asked.
“They’re certainly not Federacy warships,” Finn said.
“Have you actually been here before?”
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