Prologue
Faber, Faberian Sector
Marrika Nerys, thirteen standard years old, was running through a hallway in the Palace...well, trying to run since she had a wound in between her shoulder blades and it hurt to run but she had no choice. Her mother had killed her father while she was trying to kill her and her father had tried to protect her, his daughter.
And now she was running for her life, trying to escape from her mother and the fate that she had chosen for her daughter. Marrika darted down a small passageway, which lead to the hangar. Once she escaped, she will look after her injury then figure out what to do next though she would be alone in the galaxy.
She finally arrives in the hangar bay of the Palace; she walks over to the XS stock light freighter with the words Another Idiot's Array written on the haul. Marrika pressed a button and the ramp lowered, she walked up it and pressed another button. The ramp lifting as she walks to the cockpit, luckily she knew how to fly the ship since thirteen was considered to be an adult in the Faberian cultural and she was taught how to fly last year.
But I didn't expect to use those skills to get away from my own mother, Marrika thought as she slipped into the pilot seat and started up the engines. She grabs the steering yokes and pulled up. The ship responded easily to her touch and lifted up and above the tree line; she pointed the freighter towards the Dark Forest.
Marrika pulled back the yoke and flew towards that direction and thought, when I get to the Dark Forest, I'll figure out what to do next.
She would have to fix her injury when she gets there; she would need her body to be able to take the abuse that she knew that she would be putting it through as she tried to survive through the rule of a mother who hated her...unless she did something about it.