Chapter 4 · free to read
We got off the wreck. That was supposed to be the hard part.
I went aft to squeeze more burn out of the cells. That's when I found it — riding in my own ship.
Echo wanted my seat. This one wanted something worse — he wanted me to agree with him.
The face went out. But the ship outside didn't fire, didn't flee. It just... waited. Patient as a thing that had already won once.
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