Reunion

It had only been three days since they came to capture the pirates, but for Dreznor, those three days had been enough. Enough to spend a full year trapped with them in VR. Enough to end all of his grievances, or at least, that’s what he thought, until he started reviewing the pirates' extracted brain data.

Among the information collected were the locations of hidden loot, stashed money, and, more importantly, data about the pirates' employers, the ones who hired them for specific, targeted attacks. And it was among that data that Dreznor found the answer to the question that had gnawed at him the most: Was the attack on them just bad luck?

The answer was a resounding no.

The attack hadn’t been random. It hadn’t been a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. The pirates had been hired to kill them by the very family of their former master.

Specifically, by the new leader who had taken over.