Chapter 4“Mr. Jha, I’m not sure this is a good idea,” Max said, hurrying to keep up with the longer strides of the taller man, as Jha led him through some dimly lit corridors, to where there was supposedly a secret ship, with a secret pilot, who knew a secret way out of the Maze. He heaved his hastily packed duffle bag up onto his shoulder again. “You want me, me, to spend several weeks in a small ship with a fanatical Li loyalist?”
“Don’t kill him until you get out of the Maze,” Jha said. Max wasn’t certain he was joking. “Look, he seems to have lost that loyalty, after his bodyguard tried to kill him, and he’s volunteered to help the station, not the loyalists out there, so let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. Though…”
He paused for a moment and rummaged in a bag he was carrying, a
