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The Revolutionary
Rayaneer Listening Station –
Receiving transmission
x…x…x…x…x
Message 356-7B – 00:34:98
“Tyral Pirates have placed a bounty on the attacker.”
“A bounty?”
“Seems the hunting party failed in their search and disappeared.”
(STATIC…INDECHIPERABLE)
“Consider contacting the other.”
“The other?”
“Yes. This situation might take another like him…”
The room smelled of body odor and cigarettes. My body ached. I fell back on the bed. The Tyral Pirate attack craft’s cramped conditions made for a long trip through the Frontier back into civilization. A vehicle rumbled by the room. A bland painting of a bland binary sunrise on a bland planet rattled above the bed’s headboard. A baby crying echoed through the hallway.
Home.
I stood and stretched. The black case remained
