Brantley Station is an underwater mining community where hundreds of scientists, technicians, and their families live while they research, explore, and mine minerals for export to the surface. Occasionally hit by pirate raids, this station has one of the best security systems and has yet to be infiltrated or successfully raided. One of the early pirate raid attempts resulted in the capture of Ethan, an assumed pirate child. Ethan's story is the story of Brantley Station; this child who grows up in the depths as an outcast has more mystery than truth in his background. Follow Ethan and the natives of Brantley Station in a series of stories as Ethan uncovers more of his mysterious past, one sliver of memory at a time.
Ethan has been learning about Brantley Station while under Darren's charge. But now Darren must leave and he makes Ethan promise to stop stealing. Experience has taught Ethan to never look back, and with such resolve, he attempts to honor his word. Brantley Station's natives are ruled by the citizen council, the Grenadan Guards by their military regulations, and those assigned as galley workers are ruled under the chef - a strict, no-nonsense, former Guard. A group of the new Guards hear of Ethan's "sticky fingers" and force him to steal tobacco for them. Ethan must find a way to stop - but who will believe the word of a Little Thief over the respected voices of the older Guards? Will the council revisit this issue as forewarned and expel Ethan? What future can a pirate child have within a community where he's forced to straddle and maneuver within the odd entanglement of civilian versus military rule while he officially falls into neither category?
