CHAPTER SEVEN
THE LAST THREE DAYS of their journey passed in relative calm. Though a four day trip through hyperspace wasn’t long by any count, Ty hadn’t realized just how far away they’d been kept from where Dorsey was taken. Jaaxis was further away still. The path that put the two of them captured on the same ship at the same time made little sense so far, especially since they’d been the only prisoners.
The slave markets were close enough to the Jaaxis gate to explain the pirates’ presence, but why had they crossed half the galaxy to get there? If anything suspicious turned up regarding the Tarnian pilot’s death, then Ty was concerned that there was more to the situation then he realized. If there was foul play, then this was a Consortium issue, and Ty was unwittingly caught up in it.
