Gambler
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Silence. Complete and utter silence. A silence so quiet that it was deafening. So quiet that it sometimes played tricks on the mind. The countless planets and stars just visible in the distance sometimes appeared closer. And sometimes there were shadows. Shadows that moved. Was it the mind playing tricks on you? Or was there something out there? Something dark. A true predator. A bright flash of incandescent light burst into existence as a medium freighter rumbled out of hyperspace. Its dull plating shimmered softly in the light exerted by the ship's many hued lights. For a moment it sat there, unmoving and unnaturally still. The only sound was the ticking of the hyperdrive and the whirring of the slowing engines. And then everything went black. Except for a few dim lights scattered across the outer surface of the freighter. Emergency lights.
Inside, a man with platinum blond hair tied behind his head in a ponytail to keep it out of his face, sat in the cockpit. His hand flicked the ignition. Once. Twice. Nothing. The ship didn't start. The hyperdrive didn't click. It was eerily quiet once more. Except for the breathing of two beings. One was that of the platinum blond man. The other steady gasps of breath belonged to something else... a shadow against the darkened cockpit. A friend. Maybe. The dim light from the distant stars barely allowed a flash of white. A smile? The man was certainly in no position to smile. His freighter had broken down in the middle of space. The freighter was a cargo freighter for some minor trading company and the goods it contained would be worth quite a sum to the right people.
But the man flicked on the emergency transmission. Because of course, even in the worst possible situation there was always some way to get a distress signal across. The man checked his watch. It was almost time... After almost a minute of waiting he finally spoke up. "Our freighter... broken... middle of... nowhere to go... please come soon... Aliac Jaid... trader," static filled the message as if something was wrong with the transmission. The man frowned at what he heard when he played it back. He nodded once though and sent it out, using the long range sensors for greater distance. For of course someone would hear it and come check up on him to help him out. The man smiled a thin smile. A smile of relief maybe? What else could it be? Nothing. Just relief that someone would be coming.
Inside, a man with platinum blond hair tied behind his head in a ponytail to keep it out of his face, sat in the cockpit. His hand flicked the ignition. Once. Twice. Nothing. The ship didn't start. The hyperdrive didn't click. It was eerily quiet once more. Except for the breathing of two beings. One was that of the platinum blond man. The other steady gasps of breath belonged to something else... a shadow against the darkened cockpit. A friend. Maybe. The dim light from the distant stars barely allowed a flash of white. A smile? The man was certainly in no position to smile. His freighter had broken down in the middle of space. The freighter was a cargo freighter for some minor trading company and the goods it contained would be worth quite a sum to the right people.
But the man flicked on the emergency transmission. Because of course, even in the worst possible situation there was always some way to get a distress signal across. The man checked his watch. It was almost time... After almost a minute of waiting he finally spoke up. "Our freighter... broken... middle of... nowhere to go... please come soon... Aliac Jaid... trader," static filled the message as if something was wrong with the transmission. The man frowned at what he heard when he played it back. He nodded once though and sent it out, using the long range sensors for greater distance. For of course someone would hear it and come check up on him to help him out. The man smiled a thin smile. A smile of relief maybe? What else could it be? Nothing. Just relief that someone would be coming.