Thread: Adventure Beyond the Stars (Kloey and El)

Alexander wrinkled his nose at the sharp stench of starship exhaust as he moved quickly through the crowds. Lassan had the largest port on the colony and ships were constantly coming and going. The crowds of people were somewhat of an aggravation for him, they made his search difficult and the constant jostling and pushing to get through was slowly starting to make him regret this decision. If I don't find them in the next twenty minutes... he let the thought trail off as he pushed past an arguing couple and stepped to the side of what was apparently a pawn shop in order to get out of the crushing press of people for a moment. Alexander sighed and ran a hand through his short, black hair before scratching the back of his neck. He pulled a slightly crumpled picture out of the pocket of his jacket and looked it over again. The pair of images were blurry and taken from poor angles. One showed a ship just about to break atmo and the second was of a small group of people. It wasn't much, but they were the best images that he could find of the ship and bounty hunter crew that he was looking for. He looked at the ship again, the image was too blurry to make out the ship's name but it was possible to make out its general shape. He looked up from the images and started searching, once again, for the ship. He had been coming down to the largest refueling area in the city for the last three days in the hope of spotting just this one ship but hadn't had any luck in locating it. There were rumors that the bounty hunter Leigh and her crew were tracking down the same person who was responsible for the deaths of his family and the local police forces had been eight different kinds of useless in tracking down the killer. Alexander thought he knew where the man had gone to ground but the police hadn't found his information good enough to act on. So here he was searching the largest port on the colony for a single ship with every intention of convincing Leigh and her crew to help him capture the bastard, or kill him if necessary. His hand went to the small of his back for a moment, feeling the reassuring weight of the pistol tucked away beneath his jacket. Either way, his family was going to rest easy. He started to turn to continue on his way but paused for a moment. He looked back down the line of docked ships and and squinted slightly before looking back down at the images in his hand. He grinned and made his way back into the crowd, shoving his way through the people. Alexander was just shy of being six feet tall and had a physique that came from working daily in the fields. His black hair was slightly tousled from his habit of running a hand through it when he was frustrated but frustration had been replaced with elation now and as he pushed through the crowd that elation rapidly turned into a firm certainty. That's the ship. That means they're here. he told himself as he started scanning the crowd, searching for the bounty hunters. The ship's engines were still winding down so that meant they had landed recently, they couldn't have gotten far. He climbed onto some stacked crates to get a better view and started scanning the crowd, green eyes roaming over the press of people until he spotted a pair of people moving through the crowd together. A large muscular man with a smaller woman wearing gloves at his side. The pair of pistols the man wore in his shoulder holsters were what confirmed it for him though. Not too many people carried their weapons openly around here, there were no laws against it it was just something people didn't really do. Alex hopped down from the crates and took off in pursuit, pushing through the crowd. He'd follow the pair for a bit, make sure he had the right people. If they weren't who he was hoping they were then he'd head back to the starship and attempt to talk to whoever on the crew had been left to mind it.