Much to her dismay, Kira couldn’t kill them.Nothing they’d done had ever justified that course of action.Sabotaging their business and ship only did so much.Rather, they saw such actions as an invitation to reciprocate.Threats went in one ear and out the other.Steering clear was the best and only way Kira had found to handle their particular brand of crazy.
Martha blew a loud raspberry.“Who wants your pity help?Not me, I promise you that.I can get my sister and ship back by my own damn self.”
“Right.”
This wasn’t working.Time to change tactics.
“I should have known better than to expect signs of intelligence out of you.”
“Yeah, you should have,” Martha agreed with a nod.A second later, she frowned as her brain finished processing Kira’s insult.“Wait.”
Kira had already wasted enough time on this.
She looked beyond Martha to Raider.“Make sure to get her ship codes from her.She and Maggie will have tagged their equipment with trackers we can trace.”
It was an old salvager tactic meant to prevent the theft of expensive tools.
The criminal element on Titan would likely know about it and have taken steps to disable them, but Kira was hoping they overlooked something.
“It won’t work.”Martha attempted to shrug out of Finn’s hold.“Do you really think that wasn’t the first thing I tried?”
“I have no idea,” Kira said truthfully.“You’ve never struck me as the intelligent sister.Either way, I’d prefer to verify the trackers have been disabled for myself.Past encounters have shown your promises to be less than reliable.”
Finn clamped down on Martha’s shoulder when she opened her mouth on a scathing retort.
“Don’t worry.We’ll get them,” Raider told Kira, cutting the feed from his side a second later.
Jin’s face replaced him in the hologram.“Do you think Martha really doesn’t know where her sister is?”
“They’ve fooled us before.”
More than once.It was what made the sisters so difficult to deal with.There was usually an element of truth in their fabrications.Maggie could be an unfortunate victim.Or she could be a willing partner who’d left her sister behind for reasons unknown.
“Keep me updated,” Kira instructed.
“I will,” Jin assured her.“While I have you, you should know Maksym checked in while the comms were offline earlier.He found Pye.”
“What about the other three?”
“Gone.”
Kira settled against the railing, glancing down to check on Graydon and Amila.
They had wandered away from the container Caius and the other two had come out of and were now following the signs of pursuit.Solal kept watch from his position atop the containers
“What do you mean gone?”
“Exactly how it sounds.They’re nowhere to be found.Maksym arrived to find security trying to dig up Pye from where Bez had partially buried him.I watched the encounter.It’s quite entertaining.Apparently, this wasn’t the first time they’d had to extract him.”
“That must be what Jace meant by leaving his trees alone,” Kira murmured.
Bez must have turned to alternative treatments when he didn’t find what he was looking for with station medical.
“Just out of curiosity—you wouldn’t happen to know what types of plants were in the garden Bez buried Pye in, would you?”Kira asked.
“Let me check.I’m sure there’s information somewhere.”
Waiting, Kira hooked her wrists over the railing.
