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"Did they die quickly? Were they raped before?"
"No way to know."
"Think they took any of them with them?" The hatchet maid asked hopefully, with a touch of her usual bloodthirst.
"No way to know." He shook his head and sighed, averting his eyes from the smoldering bodies.
They were interrupted by another melodic burble of speech from one of the fish men, a sharp question or command.
"They want us to leave, immediately." Marik turned to her and took her hands. "They want the Queen Bee gone and any humans off of the planet. The soldiers have already destroyed the town, most of the people there, and left. There aren't many of us on Azura left."
"We need to pick the others up."
"I've already asked," He said, shaking his head. "They won't allow it. The only reason we're alive is because they want my ship gone. It's just a happy coincidence they found its captain, isn't it?"
"I'm not happy," Phillias told him, eyeing up the fish men. They looked tough, but she had fought worse before and lived.
"We can't, dear." Marik told her gently, knowing the look in her eyes. The term of endearment made her tear her gaze from the natives back to him. He hadn't called her that before. "It's not just these three. All the natives escaped to the ocean when the Capital Systems attacked. Now they're back. We aren't safe here anymore. We have to go."
She could see the logic in his words, but it couldn't have been easy for him to say. This was his world, not hers.
One of the fish men gestured at them both, raising its voice. The other two joined in, shouting something at them.
"We have to go," He repeated, more urgently, and finally she nodded. As the shouting increased they hurriedly walked up the Queen Bee's ramp.
Marik ran lightly to the cockpit, and started the ignition sequence. The Queen Bee hummed as the ramp was raised and its engines struggled to come back online. It occurred to Phillias that the crash landing might have disabled the ship, and that if it couldn't blast off again they would be dragged from it and slain just as Lex and Xandra were. But finally the freighter shakily took off into the sky, leaving the sand and surf far beneath them.
"What were the three of them saying?" Phillias asked, and took his hand.
"To stay away if we wanted to keep our lives," Marik tossed his long blond hair from his rugged face. "And that the land and the seas were theirs again."
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