<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/23/2dcfcd001cca329430602d0a06c67db7.jpg)</div><strong>Jax Azavael</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KJDPestXRVL9tsF0CJbQvrC27mLBJR6Fy2-wAs9YqaA/edit?usp=sharing)<br/><br/>Jax Avoral had grown up on Akiton.  This was his first time off planet and—even after several stops—he went to the port hole to look out every day, and every time something changed.  Even the gray of the drift interested him, if not half so much as the cold beauty of the stars in the depths of space.<br/><br/>Grinning, he turned his eyes on the comely lasses that shared the cabin with him and declared, “I want to go out there!”<br/><br/>He laughed and hopped up, striding across the cabin with a jaunty stride.  “Have any of you ever been in the Void?  The magic I've studded should let me live safely out there, even fly around by will alone.  When I sit by the outer hull, I can feel a sort of hum in my soul, like when I'm about to cast a spell.  I was never sure if I'd be able to do it or not.  I'm sure now.  I could just jump out of an airlock and fly alongside the ship!”<br/><br/>He laughed and shook his head.  “'Til I made the mistake of moving in the opposite direction from the ship.  Then I'd never catch up and would starve death before someone found me.”<br/><br/>The young man dug around in the refrigerator.  “They restocked today.  Oh, hey!  Cactus Cola, from home.  There's a whole six pack in here.  Any one want one?”