When they had landed and their ship was brought in for numbers, Eto and the rest waited until Hawk talked to the security guys.
Soon he returned with a smile, assuring that everything was good and they could go into the city.
Veronica remembered the stories from travelers about the city of Etoile. A giant city orbiting in space with millions and millions of travelers from different planets that visited it. Everything seemed so little when they walked out of the hangars.
The city consisted of huge buildings, each with levels where people would walk, live or buy stuff. Small transport ships would fly across each other through the sky and the crowd was huge, ranging from different kinds of aliens from all kinds of planets.
‘This place is huge,’ Veronica said who looked in the sky to see where the buildings would end. She got a little sick from the heights and the crowded sky filled with ships.
‘This is awesome!’ Eto yelled and he got over to a railing from the level they stood on and looked down.
Underneath them the buildings kept going with more levels and more ships.
‘Well, that is Etoile,’ Hawk said, who still looked amazed even though he had been there before. He enjoyed how much Eto and Veronica were amazed by this place.
‘I’m 100% sure we are gonna lose each other,’ TYO said looking from Eto to the rest but nobody seemed to hear him.
Eto kept shaking his head, looking at the different races he saw walking by.
He was a man with a fish kind of head and membranes. He saw someone who looked like a wolf but more shaped like a human and even a giant slime with more than two eyes hanging in the slime getting by.
‘THIS’ he screamed.
‘Is’ Veronica sighed.
‘Awesome’ Hawk said softly together with Eto who screamed it. They all knew how he would respond.
‘Let’s try to spot different races and see what the shops are like,’ Eto said and he wanted to run into the crowd. TYO fell off his back and grabbed his leg while Veronica pulled his ear again.
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‘Wait. That is not why we are here,’ Hawk said and while Veronica pulled Eto back to the group, Eto realized that they indeed were here for a different reason. To get to Green point.
Hawk guided them through the crowd where they used different elevators to switch from levels and platforms. In the meantime, Eto was checking out the people they walked by, making it almost feel uncomfortable.
He sometimes stopped to watch someone or something.
Some of the species were uncomfortable about him staring at them, some even tried to pick a fight but luckily, Veronica pushed him away to follow Hawk.
`We have to see how we are gonna do this,' Hawk said and he looked at a card he had in his lab coat pocket.
‘I did bring some money but not enough to last the entire journey. We have to find someone or something that can bring us for cheap.’
Veronica thought about it. Their plan was to get to Green point but during the rush of escaping Borner, she never really thought about the fact that they needed money to get anywhere.
‘Maybe someone wants to help us,’ Eto said with a smile and all of them, including TYO, looked at him with surprised looks.
‘Eto, I don’t think someone is going to help us for free,’ Hawk said and Veronica remembered how naive Eto could be.
‘Why not?’ he asked with honest surprise.
‘If someone needed help, I would help him.’
They all just sighed with a grin.
‘To bad not everyone in the galaxy thinks like you Eto,’ Hawk said and it made Veronica laugh. It was these little moments again she reminded herself again why she wanted to help Eto.
They came to a platform with hanging above it a sign that said ‘harbor’.
‘We’re going in the right direction,’ Hawk said, leading the rest.
‘The plan is to find someone who can help us to Green point with our ship or theirs. We have to try to keep it discreet. That’s why I wanted to try the underground part of the harbor. There’s bound to be someone in need of money to bring us.’
Veronica walked behind Hawk, still not feeling comfortable with the whole plan.
Her whole life she had lived an honest life and learned who was right and wrong. Now she felt like she stepped over to the other side and everything she had seen already proved otherwise. Hawk noticed her absence of mind.
‘Don’t worry Veronica. We’re not gonna go with criminals. The underground is also full of people who make the wrong mistakes or are forced to this life and try to stay out of sight. People with families and friends like us. They are the ones we need to find.’
Veronica smiled. Hawk’s words put her at ease.
They found their way through the crowd and found a huge building with hangars to the side. Veronica could see smaller ships than they had seen before being docked next to it.
‘The harbor,’ Hawk said, who stopped to look at the amazing building.
Veronica stopped next to him but it wasn’t the building that caught her interest.
She looked around and she felt a little shock going through her.
‘Where is Eto?’ she asked, not seeing him around them.