Trent and Kress engaged their cruise engines and flew away from the asteroid base. Several fighters took off in pursuit.

"Be careful, Trent. We have pursuers. Do you think you can handle them?"

Trent and Kress engaged their cruise engines and flew away from the asteroid base. Several fighters took off in pursuit.

"Be careful, Trent. We have pursuers. Do you think you can handle them?"

BATTLESHIP OSIRIS, SIGMA-13 SYSTEM

Trent paced back and forth across the floor outside the medical quarters.

"You know," King said, "you keep doing that and you'll walk yourself right into a hull breach. Come on, let me buy you a drink."

Trent didn't really feel like it, but he followed King into the bar.

BATTLESHIP OSIRIS, SIGMA-13 SYSTEM

"And she didn't say anything else?"

"No," Trent said. "She said she wanted to speak to me and me only. Has Lord Hakkera said anything about her?"

"No," replied Orillion, "You're the only contact we've had with her. Something doesn't seem right."

"She sounded downright freaked about something to me. There's something strange about all this. I don't speak with her for six months, and all the sudden she calls me. I think she's in trouble."

BATTLESHIP OSIRIS, SIGMA-13 SYSTEM

Silence permeated the room. It was King who finally broke it.

"Um, excuse me, but could you say that again?"