Chapter 16“And you know where the knives are kept.”
“I know where everything is, Stel. It’ll be fine,” Javi reassured her. “You can trust me.”
“This is all very odd, I must say.”
“I know. But hey, you get two weeks paid leave while I slave away here on my own, so you’re getting the best end of the deal, right?”
She didn’t look convinced. Wore the same dubious look all the crew had when the captain had announced this stop-off a couple of days ago, a month into their trip. Speculation had been rampaging around the ship since then, but Stanten would only say she had some business to take care of and the ship would return in two weeks to continue the trip. People had also been asking Arien why they were staying on board—they all still thought of them as Aron, the ship’s clerk. But Arien ha
