Chapter Ten
Star leaned forward and wiped the sweat beading on her forehead away against her sleeve as she balanced on the narrow ledge she had stopped at to rest for a moment. She looked up at the side of the cliff they were scaling.
They were almost to the top, thank goodness. They had landed a short distance away, not wanting to take a chance of being seen disembarking from the starship. It might be invisible to the eye, but they were not.
She could tell Armet had fought a fierce battle with himself before he gruffly told her she better not get hurt or he was going to personally whip her ass. He had spoken quietly at length with Dakar before he had glanced her way one more time before closing the landing platform door. She and Madas had stood off to one side near a small cluster of r
