Thank you, xycho. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Btw to all the readers, I'm wondering if you found any part of Escape funny? I didn't specifically write humour, but I did find some parts funny, such as the Outlaw name for the 'device',
SlipTrip. I wanted the Outlaws to be a bit weird.
In retrospect, I also found it ironic that at some point, both Stealth and the Outlaws want to shoot each other, but each gets stopped by its FL equivalent: Stealth by Trent and Juni, all of them fleeing parties; and Watcher + 3S by a security detail - all hunting parties. I had to fit the main storyline into the FL storyline, and there, of course, there is no discovery of a 'Stealth' and Watcher & co can't shoot Trent's ship on Manhattan.
I must also say that I did enjoy writing the story. A lot did not turn out as I planned it - the end, for example. I had a very different end in mind, but you probably always get something other than you intended in the end.