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WRENI woke up with excitement pushing away every trace of tiredness. Today we were going to buy a spaceship. As someone who’d never even had a car, it was mind-blowing. I still couldn’t believe how much money was stored on my new bank account. I didn’t consider it mine, but that didn’t make it any less weird.
We’d been on the Ravager for two days now and I was getting used to our life here. Everyone in the pirate crew was curious but kind. Lafah had introduced me to some exotic alien foods and drinks and I’d quickly taken to her. She reminded me a bit of my friend Debbie, who’d been taken by Trads two years ago. Lafah was full of energy and always up to mischief, despite being the captain’s second-in-command. If anyone deserved the title of pirate queen, it was the medusa-haired female
