Spaceship Down: An Epic Space Opera Saga (From Far Beyond Book 1) by Christian Kallias

Author:Christian Kallias [Kallias, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

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Now that he was back into his Han Solo persona, Kevin kept a close eye on his armor’s energy levels. While he hoped he wouldn’t have to use the fighting options of his battle suit, his talk with Neeron earlier had only reinforced his understanding of the dangers one faced on board this space station.

And he couldn’t afford any mistake, even if that meant that he’d have to fight to get what was needed. There was no leaving the station without the transmitter, and because of that, his heart thumped heavily against his ribcage as he walked toward Ashpen, who had not come alone to the meeting.

Two massive goons stood by his side, and that did nothing to calm Kevin in the slightest.

Mira? Please, please tell me you’re back?

But, once more, there was no answer.

Keep your cool, Kev. It’s all just a simple exchange. You give that man credits, he gives you the tech, and hopefully that’s the last time you’ll ever see him. Let the Confederate deal with the rest of this transaction, since by then you’ll be back home.

Home. Right now the concept felt as alien to Kevin as this part of space.

“Right on time,” said Ashpen, “I like that.”

“Right back at you,” said Kevin.

From the looks of Ashpen’s face, Kevin quickly understood that his suit auto-translation probably didn’t do a good job at conveying the meaning behind that English colloquialism.

Gotta stop using these or they may get me in trouble… sooner rather than later.

“I mean I appreciate your punctuality as well,” quickly added Kevin.

Kevin became slightly more at ease as Ashpen’s body language relaxed and he nodded back at Kevin.

“I take it you have the money with you.”

“That depends. Do you have my transmitter?”

Ashpen snapped two of his four fingers and a third goon holding a large metallic casing emerged from behind large crates located in the back of the cargo bay. Shortly after the goon stopped next to his boss, Ashpen presented his wrist forward.

“Your turn, Han.”

Kevin knew he needed to keep his persona and Han would never just give away the money without making sure the case actually contained what he came for.

“I’m sure you’ll understand that I’m gonna have to see inside the case first.”

Kevin thought he saw the man twitch slightly at the question, and hoped that was just a result of Kevin’s challenging the man’s honesty, but Kevin knew he only had one shot at this, so he couldn’t afford to just trust the stranger at his word. If the movies he’d seen on the subject were any indication, smugglers weren’t exactly people one blindly trusted.

Then again, he hoped by doing so he didn’t infringe, or worse insult some sort of unwritten code these people lived by. That would be bad.

“Of course,” said Ashpen with a smile that felt forced.

Damn it, I don’t like this. Mira, please tell me you’re back in my thoughts? I could really use your help right now.

But no such luck.

Ashpen took the case from his goon, swiveled it forward and pressed a touch control on the side.

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