As the Glimmer settled into a docking bay, Kaira marvelled at what she saw. She was hardly an expert on docking bays but she’d visited enough with Tarkus to know they were generally scruffy untidy places at best, and more often dirty and rubbish filled.
But this bay… it was spotless. There was no rubbish. The few containers were neatly piled against the wall. And the walls, ceiling, and even the floor shone.
Tarkus pushed up out of his seat. Kaira followed him off the flight deck and down the stairs. When he reached the bottom Kaira expected him to head left, towards the cargo bay, so she started to move in that direction. But Tarkus stayed put.
“Not that way,” he said. “We won’t be trading anything here.”
He activated the controls. The door slid open, and she saw the small ai
