Journey to Marrachi by Dan Oakley

Author:Dan Oakley [Oakley, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I didn’t like the sound of that.

Stepping onto the raised platform, I walked over to Trella.

She was frowning at the sprawling data.

I leaned closer, but not too close. I wanted to see what the issue was but didn’t want to accidentally press any buttons.

“What’s the problem?”

Trella let out a long breath and then ran her hands through her hair. “The navigational course has been set and locked. We are currently heading for ring nine of Marrachi space station twelve.”

I nodded, so far so good. But when Trella didn’t elaborate, I thought perhaps it wasn’t good after all.

“Do we not want to go to space station twelve?”

Trella bit down on her lower lip and then turned to look at me. “If the pirates are working with someone on Marrachi, which is highly likely as he was sending someone video feeds of his potential slaves, I think we should avoid going to the expected docking position.”

“Right. That makes sense. Can you change it? Can we dock somewhere else?”

“That’s what I was hoping to do, the thing is, all this equipment is old. I’m not familiar with the data processing, and I can’t figure out how to make the changes yet.”

“Yet?”

Trella nodded. “I’m good with technology. Within a few hours, I’ll be up to speed. The trouble is we don’t have a few hours.”

“Why not?” I was getting a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach and wasn’t sure I wanted to hear Trella’s answer.

“It’s going to take at least a couple of hours for me to get familiar with the system.”

“That doesn’t sound too bad.”

“But according to this…” she said, pointing at the scrolling data, “…we are due to dock in two hours.”

I blinked at her, sure I must have misheard. “Two hours? How is that possible?”

Trella shook her head slowly. “I can only guess they’ve been working Finn hard. General Kingdoms law stipulates all jump mages are only supposed to perform one jump per day, so it should have taken us at least three days to cover this distance, but I can’t argue with the data.”

She gazed at the numbers. The green tint of the screen gave her face a greenish glow. “The data doesn’t lie. We are due to dock in two hours. That’s not long enough for me to get to grips with the new system and reprogram our route.”

I exhaled a long breath, thinking hard. “Let’s ask Finn for help. He’ll understand the navigational system…”

Trella nodded. “I think we’re going to have to ask him for help because I can’t handle this alone.”

“I don’t suppose I can do anything to help?” I asked.

Trella shook her head. “No, it would take me too long to explain it to you.”

“Fair enough. I’ll go and find Finn and Kira.”

I left Trella puzzling over the data and accessed the main corridor that ran along the length of the ship. I was starting to get my bearings now. We seemed to be on a long cylindrical vessel. One corridor ran along the length and cargo storage was at the rear.

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