I nodded. I didn’t like the answer, but she was right.
“And Hunter, dear,” she added, “be careful in getting there.” A smile slipped across her lips. “I still want those cannons.”
I scoffed. “I’ll try to keep them in one piece,” I replied. “And thanks. I’ll let you know when we’re headed your way.”
It took us half a subrev to reach the system’s gate in orbit of Pelum II, a dead rock of a world. It might have been terraformed once, but that had failed long ago. It was the two habitable moons, both under corp control, that concerned me. If either corp had seen the bounties, we could have trouble.
The flight in-gate had given Katherine, Umbstard, and Gloria time to almost finish repairs on Umbstard’s ship so it was functional at least. Even so, he was safer on the Essta without a cloak th
