Chapter Six: To The Realm Of The Sith
Korran had taken his time in following Rhia. She hadn't gone far enough however for him to fall way behind. When she disappeared around a building and he heard voices, he hurried anyway. "No knowing what kind of creature lives in this kind of a place. And I'm still not sure this is a trap." Korran rounded the corner, just in time to see a young man stand and then start to fall. Not thinking, he leapt forward and slowed the young man's fall, catching him halfway to the ground. Setting him down, he turned to Rhia. "Is he the source of the signal?"
"He says he's not - but there's no one else here according to him. That's all I got out of him before..."
Korran felt the man's forehead. "He's got one hell of a bloomin' fever Rhia."
"We'll have to get him to the ship. There's a small med kit in the back." Rhia said. "Do you
think you can carry him?"
Korran nodded. "Just let me know if I'm going to trip over anything."
Within minutes, Korran laid Zayne down upon the bunk in the living quarters of Rebirth. Rhia hurried in with the med kit and was disappointed to find that most of its contents had been used up. "It's a good thing someone checked this." she muttered as she drew out the last bacta pack.
"Did you find it?" Korran yelled from the cockpit where he too was digging through miscellaneous storage spaces.
"All I've got is one bacta pack." Rhia yelled back, clipping the pack to a blood infuser. With a quick movement, Rhia wiped Zayne's right arm and then pushed the infuser against his skin and
pulled the lever.
After carefully replacing the infuser back in its case, Rhia walked to the cockpit. "We're going to need to get to some sort of med center. He's not going to get over that fever with one bacta pack."
Korran pointed to the navicomputer screen in front of him. "The closest planet is a heavily inhabited Sith controlled world." Ignoring the look Rhia gave him he continued. "The Sith that are looking for us are not going to be looking for us on their doorstep."
"Are you sure about this Korran, normally you're the one of us with some caution."
"I'm not saying you should walk off the ship, grab the first Sith officer you see, and proceed to tell him a long narrative story of our lives, but if we just blend in with the local law abiding populace, I don't see that we're going to have any trouble."
"Alright." Rhia replied, automatically starting the preflight checks. Korran checked the navicomputer again, and then ignited the engines to get them off planet. Soon, he was punching in a course and then once again sitting back to watch the lights of distant stars blur together as they went to hyperspace.