The Price of Sight

[jammi]

I gave a small startled scream as the fighter behind me erupted into a seething ball of flames, before winking out into nothingness as fast as it had been immolated. I rammed the accelerator forward with such force that the stick nearly snapped off, but I didn't care. The voices were sending their demons after me. I had to escape!

Fleeing away past Leon, towards the Omega 47 jump hole, I noticed the small ship coasting along next to me, twirling around me lazily. In desperation, I cut the engines as the jump hole neared and blazed away at it with the one turret the ship possessed. The stubby ship didn't move, but every time I fired, my hands would jerk on the targeter, causing the shots to fly wide.

Screeching in desperation and fear, I aligned my ship with the hole and plunged through, screaming towards the waiting safety of the Fes. The ship did not follow. And then the Osiris erupted into view from the swirling clouds. Gibbering with relief I sent the dock codes then allowed the automated embrace of the docking sequence.

As the bay doors slammed shut and the airlock was pressurised I pulled at my hair absently. The ship was on a night phase. I stumbled out of my ship when the room had been filled with air and set off to look for a room. A deck supervisor looked suspiciously at me until I showed him my ID. Then he pointed me to a flight cabin and left me to it.

The voices weren't here... I'd outrun them.

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