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Karryl was an experienced pilot, but he’d never flown anything quite as luxurious as the personal transport the emperor loaned him. The engines were state-of-the-art, the latest development in hyper-threaded, quad-core faster than light technology. It showed. He barely felt lift off from the planet, the power only detectable when the engines kicked in to slingshot the sleek ship into the planet’s outer atmosphere.
Pinned back into the low, padded couch, he kept an eye on the readouts. Well, that’s what he told himself. All the screens were within normal parameters, which was good since he wasn’t paying attention to them. Thoughts of Jane swirled through his mind, preoccupying his thought processes. He tried to shut them down, put thoughts of the tempting little human out of his head to
