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CHAPTER ONE – JIMMY

The Vacation Sector isn’t a place I usually spend tih there are o to pretty alaxy

Too much traffic Too many people I hate people

Spending those first several years on Hareed me, I think

Before we had to run frouy Hell, my father was a diplomat and his hope was that I’d take his place when he retired, so I went to all the parties and met all the people

At least… that’s what I thought he wanted for me

Before I learned the truth about who and what I am

Crux told me his Corla story about six months after we arrived on as then called ALCOR Station ALCOR had whipped up some fermented wine froot a little bit drunk, so Crux’s whole sordid tale ca out of his mouth unasked for

I knew parts of it already I knee helped Corla escape, I knew everyone was pissed about that But that’s it That’s all I really knew

It grossed aveshivers So when ALCOR finally let us leave the station several years later, the first thing Xyla and I did was book on over to a biogenetics lab just off the Outlaw Highway and have a DNA signature scrambler made

If I ever did get caught by the Cygnians or the Akeelians there was no way in hell they’d figure out who I was And I would not be forced into sonature scrambler would make sure there was no true soulmate for me

Pretty clever, I think It was Xyla’s idea She’s been around She knows things

The DNA signature scraht it would takewrong and maybe that’s all the time I need to make an escape

The scraet a boost