Chapter 8 · free to read
I went alone. Mira called it stupid. It was arithmetic — he had already told me exactly what happens to the crew.
Nine of them. He kept them lit.
He had been building rooms for people like me since before I was born.
He let me go. That was the whole exercise. Fear is a longer leash than a chain, and it costs him nothing to maintain.
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