"We was together about... ten years or so? Did a whole lotta stealin'... which ain't the most noble thing but Stakar, the Starhawk, had this way of fittin' bein' a hero in along the way. We all had our own ships. Had this big guy 'called Charlie-27, heavy-gravity heavy-lifter. Another'n named Martinex. Nearly unbreakable, didn't need to breathe in space. Robot callin' herself mainframe. And Stakar's wife, Aletta, who was-" he makes a huffing noise and shakes his head. Yeah, he absolutely would have wanted in on that if he could. "-She was real good with blades. Then Krugarr, too. An' me, the guy with the arrow."

And then his expression drifts. "I messed it up, made some bad choices. Did somethin' real stupid... real stupid, never figured out how to make it right. But it means I lost ever'body. I think they even broke up after that... I never got over missin' 'em, though."