Excerpt: Drift's Tale

It took the better part of a half hour for my mind to wrap around this situation known as the third option and to finally snap back to where I was. In the Starport, apparently booked on a different flight then my parents. I was the new owner of a debit bond, but not simply a three year typical bond, or a five or even a ten year bond, I was neck deep in what was known as a life bond.
A life bond was an amount that was considered un-payable within a single life time. The numbers where understood by me, however the amount didn’t sink in as to the real extent of the damages I would be facing. Two million five hundred thousand in Solarsus standard credits.