Chapter 5
It was him. Barb recognized Locke as soon as she and Taya left the ship at the rendezvous. Not the same place as before, different coordinates and a different landscape, with thick vegetation. The two ships stood at the edge of a forest of some kind of alien trees. Barb didn’t like the trees because they provided way too much potential cover for the enemy.
The specific enemy in this case was Locke. He stood not in the forest but by the cargo bay door of his ship, where four men were unloading two long crates. It took all four of them to carry one. They weren’t the same guys from yesterday. Vince was there, running the operation but deferring to Locke. Locke gave Barb and Taya dismissive glances, as if they were beneath his notice. A couple of amateurs who’d inconvenienced him w
