CHAPTER SIX
“Are you sure this is what you want to do, Raia? You are welcome to stay with us. Nayua has fallen in love with you and your creatures,” Hanine said.
“They love her, too. It’s just—I’m not used to being in one place for so long,” Raia confessed, looking up from where she was working on the wiring of the new defense system Hanine was installing for her.
She smiled reassuringly at the purple-skinned woman who she had grown to like over the past four months. Her wariness of the two sisters slowly dissolved as the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. Ben and Aaron had helped her make the repairs, then trade up the shuttle for a used freighter.
Hanine and Evetta took over after the purchase. Raia grinned at the memory of the two women chewing out their spouses for b
