RidOv Chpt-4

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==Ridiculously Overboard!! (A Captain Roberts Tale!!)Chapter 4 - Missing Girl==
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"Stolen a Mark VII-C...
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...landing craft right out from under our noses." Star Commander Leroy scowled, "Do we have anything other than a probable launch vector?"
A local from the PGC cleared her throat. "We had a hit...but you are not going to like it."
"I like losing a combat smallcraft somewhat less than you seem to imagine, Point Three." he scowled. "What is the hit? is there a warrant or-"
The local handed him an offprint, with the word "Neg."
Have you seen our daughter?
There was an image that was clearly the SAME young woman caught trying to break into a data trunk near the center of the city, minus a few minor details like the missing eye and maybe three years of aging.
"...reward for her safe return?"
The story in the notice would be mystifying, he knew, at the higher levels of the Clan among Trueborns, but it was something he had seen a thousand times since the Clan came to the Outworlds Alliance.
Children, stolen in raids by pirates, or lost, frantic parents offering rewards they can't begin to pay for the vain hope of finding their missing child.
The world the girl was from, was only a couple of jumps away. The date on the notice, only three years old.
"Amanda Roberts." He lowered the pamphlet, "WE are looking to apprehend miss Amanda Roberts...kidnapped from her colony three years ago, probably by whichever pirate band is using her now. We find the girl, we will find the pirates who took her, along with a dozen other children...I need to speak to the Star Captain about this."
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