Chapter 238: Traveling across the Portal Gallery
Come on, hurry up already, Irwin thought as he watched the three men push the barrel-laden cart across the dock.
He glanced up at the Dead Pact Mercenary ship, a pale-hulled, sleek vessel. Everything about it oozed speed and danger, perhaps even more than the red Currant Hunter vessel they had encountered. Rindiri said it was an altered, small Escort Vessel. Due to its build, it could chase anything through nearly any Portal Gallery passage, except for the very smallest ones.
"The Sonata?" a voice called out.
Irwin looked at the cargo hauler, a silver-eyed, broad-shouldered man.
"That's us," he said. "That's my water and supplies?"
"It is. You don't have a cargo lift or cargo plank I take it?"
Irwin shook his head as he walked to the edge of the gangplank.
"Just roll them over," he said.
The lead hauler nodded, and a moment later, a barrel roughly the size of Irwin's chest was rolling across the gangplank. He picked it up and put it to the side. Boohm picked it up.
"Just put it down anywhere?" he asked it, seeming unburdened by the heavy barrel.
"Zender, show him where to put it," Irwin shouted before turning back to the lead hauler, who had been quietly observing what was happening.
"You are planning a long trip?" the man asked conversationally.