5 SILUS
This was not how I'd imagined meeting my mate.
The plan had been to find her, beam her into my shuttle and then get away from Kalumbu as fast as I could. But the Horned God had had other ideas for me. As soon as my AI had located my mate, the proximity alarms had blared to life. I'd scarcely believed my eyes when two missiles showed up on the screen. The barrier hadn't been the game makers' only defence.
I was a good enough pilot, but the shuttle was unwieldy and not made for high-speed chases. It had taken all my skill to evade one of the missiles, but the second had clipped one of the engines.
It was said that the Horned God had a twisted sense of humour. I'd crashed, but I'd not only survived, but had also managed to come down close to my mate. Somehow. I still didn't quite
