Chapter 38: Flight
December 2413
Kirina paced around her quarters on the Klingon starship. The whole mission was a blur to her now. She remembered speaking with Aurelia, learning that they captured Mandukar.
Captured.
That wasn’t the plan. She was supposed to be dead. But instead, the prisoner was on her way back to New Romulus, and Kirina was being brought back to FOB: Kargas, her cover blown, surrounded by Klingons that she’d been spying on for months. She hadn’t been thrown in a cell - or executed - yet, but she knew it was only a matter of time.
None of it made any sense.
I have to get out of here, she thought as she reached the end of the room and turned to repeat her steps, I can’t go back to that station.
The next few hours passed similarly, as Kirina paced and thought and plotted; as she made her plans. When the ship finally dropped out of warp and began its docking procedure, it was time to act. She was ready.
The door to her quarters opened, and the guard from outside the door stepped inside. He’d opened his mouth to speak, probably with orders to bring the Romulan to see the General, but Kirina was faster. Barely a moment passed before the man hit the ground with a tremendous thump. Kirina quickly tossed the spent hypospray casing, grabbed her pouch from the bed and made off into the corridor.
She was lucky, there was only the one guard. It was a small ship, and she was gratified to be able to quickly locate an access panel that she could pry open. Before long, she’d succeeded in triggering the ship’s evacuation alarm.