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Wicked Wanderer Chapter One




Wicked Wanderer
Chapter One

by Sharon Green
Copyright 2003 by ABCD Webmasters, and Sharon Green




Chayara crouched behind the crate in the ship's storage hold, not quite holding her
breath. She'd managed to sneak on board this vessel from the supply and repair station
where the ship had docked, taking advantage of the sloppy way they'd guarded their
hold after loading their supplies. If the ship needed repairs as well as supplies the wait
for it to leave the station could be a long one, but she was trusting to luck that departure
would be sooner rather than later. After all, luck had gotten her this far…

And her luck turned bright and shiny again when she felt the sudden throb of engines
and heard the clang of ports being closed and locked. The engines would need only a
short time of warm up to match the short time the ship had been docked, but that very
short amount of docking time suddenly felt odd rather than lucky. Wasn't anyone
taking leave on the station, not even the ship's officers? That wasn't the way it usually
worked…

"But it's too late to change my mind," Chayara muttered as she sat down on the cold
and dirty deck, pulling her pack closer. "Not that I would change my mind even if I
could. This was the only ship likely to leave before the next Patrol ship showed up,
when everyone on the station would be asked for identity papers. They would have
found me no matter where I tried to hide, and that would have been it. At least now I
have some kind of chance."

A chance to get as far away from where she'd come from as possible, without anyone
knowing what she was doing. She had to find her uncle Leron, a man she hadn't seen in
eight years, but a man who was also her father's twin brother so she'd have no trouble
recognizing him. Uncle Leron had given her the name of a planet and its sector when
she had seen him last. Finding him on the planet he'd named - not to mention getting to
that planet or its station - might be hard, but so far her luck had carried her more than
half way. Freighters weren't comfortable to travel on, but they covered large distances


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and were fairly convenient for a stowaway.

Like this newest freighter she'd found. The supply hold wasn't as gigantically large as