When the new President of the human colony on Roseworld ordered her robot police force to arrest all surviving pirates, nineteen year old pirate Nyle Swift fled west of the spaceport on foot.

Nyle hid under a willow tree to avoided being seen when a searching craft flew overhead. Covered in mud, he grabbed a willow stick to help climb the steep bank once the craft flew away.

When Nyle arrived at a isolated small village he thought he would be safe from capture, but was recognised and locked up to wait for a craft to fly him back to the space port.

This science fiction short story follows one pirate trying to avoid capture by the Roseworld police force robots.