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had dropped.
    Everything before her looked foreign. She wasn’t about to swipe something that may alert him of her presence and the items on the table looked important enough to not be messed with. There was even a small gun of some sort, running her fingers over the chilled silvery metal. She could see the reflection of the holographic planet on it before dropping her hand away.
    If I stay any longer, I will get caught. Taking her chances, she quietly walked back toward the hatch, holding her breath the entire time.
    When she stepped back into the arid heat and the crunch of dirt sounded beneath her feet, she ran away from the ship, back toward the safety of her cave .
    The beautiful gun was now a deadly reminder imprinted into her mind.
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    Jack learned a lot about the girl when she didn’t snatch any of the precious things he had left on the table. Some of the machinery he had placed out was priceless. The gun, one of his most coveted and prized possessions was made from Pyrizian rock. He had also left out communication devices, schematics, tools, and medicinal products and the girl had snatched none of it.
    Instead, as he followed her trail, she had gone into the brig. He could still see the small finger indent she had left in the wall. It looked queer amongst the bright austere walls.
    So she wasn’t here to pillage my valuables . But she was willing to invade his space and encroach on a battle flyer.
    He now knew the girl had no idea that he was a Cybernetic organism.
    The next day he purposely left the hatch open but instead of placing random valuables out, he created food from his replicator and opened his supply unit. He placed the breaded rations on a random panel in his cockpit and then left his ship, curious to see what the girl would do with the sustenance.
    He approached the burned out circuitry that was now slowly repairing itself and transferred more of his nanobots into it, he did this everyday to try and speed up the process but his patience was running thin. Every hour he was stuck here was another hour Larik had to find a hole to hide in. He ground his teeth before forcing his body to shut down his frustration.
    After he finished up, feeling slightly faint from losing so many nanobots in such a short amount of time, he walked away from his ship to monitor the girl at a distance.
    It didn’t take long for her to appear, her movements and body language bolder as she began to feel more comfortable with the daily routine. He watched, pleased, as she tracked his footsteps again.
    He still couldn’t make out definitive features about her but he did notice her long golden brown hair and her small frame. She had stopped to stare at his prints fading into the distance, to where he was located now but she didn’t move. Instead she stared in his direction as if she could tell he was there.
    What the hell? Jack now felt he had to be the one to remain frozen and even out his breathing; trying not to alert her.
    He watched in frustration as she turned around and left.
     

 
     
    Chapter Five:
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    A llie had returned the next day, not to explore his ship but to confront the strange man. It had taken her hours to build up the courage but as she approached the ship, he wasn’t there, his footprints leading out into the landscape again.
    Why did he keep going out into a wasteland that had nothing? She had gotten an uneasy feeling, losing all of her courage in the process and quickly left. She hadn’t seen him since that first day and now desperately wanted to look at him again. The fact that the scenario happened twice now felt like a sign that she should be wary.
    I haven’t survived this long without listening to my sense.
    She returned to watch him the following several days but had never found him at the ship again. She could tell progress was being made on the repairs, the plating around the damage had begun to change and some of the discarded plating on the ground had been removed and reused on the area