When a single planet becomes too small

[Sabretooth92]

I didn't completely agree with taking those two kids with me, so I headed to the engineering deck in search of Nick's father. As I entered there, I smelled something strange, a smell that was also known to me... Was that cardamine? I wanted to see where that smell came from. I found a man fitting cardamine inside some manifolds storage containers. I asked him if he was the man I was looking for, his answer was much more that what I wanted to know: "I'm Simon and yes, I'm Nick's father, or at least that's what I've been told ha ha ha..."I didn't find that comment funny enough to laugh, something that he seemed to wait for."It's a joke... Well, Ray has told me that assigned your son as your co-pilot, you won't regret it, he has been doing this since he was nine, he uses to come with me in some smuggling runs, he has an innate ability for navigation... I can swear you that if neither your scanner nor his eyes can see it, it's cloaked or it doesn't exist. About the girl, Helen... She's dangerous, and has problems with receiving orders... What really happens is that Ray payed a lot of money for her, he wanted her for... hmm... for having fun, you know what I mean... and seems that she's tired of this. The same day he bought her, about half an hour later, I saw him with a knife nailed in his leg, very close to... He told me that she attacked him because I don't remember what story he told me, but everyone in the shipyard knew why. I think that will be great for her that you take her away from Ray, a few days ago she was in the medical unit, with whip wounds. And I'm worried because I know that she can focus all that resentment against anyone, if you've been here long enough, you've surely heard the story of the man that appeared slaughtered in an airlock..."I nodded."And she will be out there with my son, who can be a bigmouth, sometimes more than I'd like... About taking care of them, just bring them back in one piece, for the rest they can fend for themselves." I guess if they can take care of themselves because the ones that should do that aren't fit to do it. It's time to work, let's see where are these two... Anyway, I don't think they've assigned two inept to a rookie's gunboat, unless they want to get rid of them...

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