Yes, Mayra thought.It’s worth it. She could steal a vessel, could make her way back to Territh’s moon. She was the goddamn oracle, and it was high time she started acting like it. Instead of heading back to her quarters, defeated, she would find her way back to the landing pad and commandeer one of the ships parked there.
As she hurried through the hallways, she tried not to think about the sight of Sanri and Nojan together, locked in an embrace. All of a sudden, she froze. It was exactly as she had seen in her vision. She’d been warned, but she’d still fallen for the asshole.I guess I can add stupid to the list next to ugly.
The pad had a few ships scattered around, and it didn’t seem to be guarded. There were men in jumpsuits, maybe pilots or mechanics, but no one gave her a second look.Maybe they don’t have any crime on Vartik, she thought idly. Maybe it truly was the paradise Nojan made it out to be.
Or maybe it was full of shitty assholes who were too busy fucking dirty off-world whores to steal anything.
Mayra had never been so mad and she enjoyed the feeling of letting her anger build. It was the only thing stopping her from collapsing into a heap on the ground, bemoaning her unjust fate.Fuck it, she thought.I don’t care if they have magical powers and their blood turns shit to gold. I’m getting the fuck out of here.
She found a small ship, smaller even than the one Nojan had used to rescue her, and hit the panel to open the door. It had only four seats, a broad center console, and a small room in the back that she discovered held a tiny bathroom. Good enough.
Mayra took a seat behind the console and studied the controls. She’d watched Nojan punching buttons a few times, so she had a very rudimentary understanding of the controls. Luckily, this ship had tiny pictures next to most of the buttons. She hit the one that showed a ship next to an arrow pointing up and watched the viewscreen as the ship began to rise.
“Goodbye, Vartik,” she said as the ship sailed out of the atmosphere until the planet was a blue-green ball beneath her.
“And hello oblivion,” a voice said from behind her.
She spun around and almost fell out of her chair when she saw Sanri sitting behind her.
“Let the real journey begin,” the raven-haired vixen said, and Mayra fell down a dark hole for what felt like forever.
