Between the shadows of blood

[NixOlympica]

While Concordia was sitting next to her and yelling for help. Izumi's mind continued to return in her past
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Izumi sniffed a cardamine line from the table. The worst curse she brought from Ainu. The more she tried to resist it, the harder it was. She always ended up being nervous and her hands shaking. Today she wanted to be perfectly calm. The room spinned around her as the cardamine started to get in her veils. Izumi had a meeting on one of the Leeds scrapyards. Whole Planet Leeds was scrapyard of the rest of the Sirius.

She left her hired flat and took a shuttle there. The man was already waiting for her.

"Goo'morning, lass!"

She just nodded and said "So where is the ship?"

He smiled at her with his golden tooth

"Oh here, here! The best you can get for this price!" he grinned at his own words.

He led her to another part of the scrapyard and then she saw it. The wreck of an old Democritus yacht. Izumi gasped. It was even worse than she thought.

"Nice ain't it!" he smiled again

"Lovely" she muttered

The wreck was almost nothing than hull, everything that could be at least a bit valuable was stripped off. Engines, electronics, seats, powercore. Everything. Just a skeleton left.

"It doesn't look great now... But you have to think about it in future! Great business possibility!"

Izumi sighed. Maybe it was a mistake but she couldn't live that forever. She wanted freedom. The only freedom that space could offer her. Forget about her past and start again. Be free and without bounds. She turned at the dealer.

"I will take it" she said

"Amazing!" he smiled, happy that he can get rid of this unsaleable wreck, he took out his neuralpad and prepared the deal.

She gave him the check with 1 million credits, her last money. The money she saved for her freedom.

He looked at it

"I thought that the deal was 1,5 million lassie" he was about to return it

She looked in his eyes.

"You didn't say in the deal that this is nothing more than a damn hull. Take 1 million or that thing will sit you here till the end of your days."

He thought for a few seconds just for the show. He was already decided.

"Alright hon, you will rip me from my own skin and leave me with naked butt, but you have it."

She nodded and took the confirmation from him. Great, now she is proud owner of the biggest wreck in the Sirius. Izumi smiled at ship.

"You will fly baby"