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Caligher crossed his arms, pondering everything. “Fucking stars.”
Lucca. He needed to warn her. Make sure humans stayed the fuck away from her. The things they would do to an unarmed vessel played through his mind, eating him alive.
“Any info on the ship that was spotted?” he asked. Fuck finding the pirate. He was going after the humans.
“It’s a long-range cruiser, not much larger than yours… but there’s another thing they can do. They can hide.”
“What do you mean, hide?”
“Just after we spot them, they always disappear,” Morwong said. “No one’s managed to get a continuous trace.”
“Nothing to track them with?”
Morwong shook his head, his eyes shadowed with contemplation. “Bases are reporting sightings—but the ship moves at random. It’s almost as fast as yours with the places it’s popped up.”
Nothing was as fast as Caligher’s ship—short of using a portal. Humans couldn’t create their own portals, so…
“We’re dealing with more than one,” Caligher concluded.
Morwong nodded in agreement.
Caligher rubbed his hands over the chair, making it creak. Morwong set a disk-shaped object on the table. “This module will alert you if something is sighted.”
Rotating it between his fingers, Caligher said, “Can I get one for Lucca?”
Morwong’s face turned inscrutable, but he quickly nodded, rising to fetch a second module.
Caligher’s restlessness drove him to his feet. “I need a favor, Morwong. Let Lucca dock here until I get back. Feed her. Put it on my bill—I don’t care.”
Morwong went still, then pinned Caligher with a narrowed expression of disapproval. “What are you doing?”
“Going after that ship.”
“You’re wasting your efforts. And your ship needs work.” Morwong’s words blurred into irrelevant noise as Caligher headed for the door, unwilling to listen to further arguments.
* * *
“Lucca, you need to stay here for a few days.”
Her breath stuttered with shock as he dropped the info bomb on her. “Humans have been sighted again. I’m going out to look for them.”
She paused bluntly as he heated his engine cores. If she wasn’t there when he got back… he might fly after her. And he had no idea if Lucca would want that.
He gritted his teeth to keep the debate in his own damn head.
“Hold up, what do you mean humans have been sighted?” she asked.
“A ship has been reported moving around theHeart.”
“Is that… bad?”
He stopped in his tracks, staring at her ship in the window.
What the fuck?
While pre-setting his ship’s course, he quietly reached out with his senses. There were blips of something—traces of something new on the horizon. If he tracked them down he might get lucky.
He made sure to sound as casual as possible when he said, “Of course it’s bad. How far out did you come from?”
