Chapter 5 · free to read
Mara asked which one of us was the original. The answer used to be obvious. Out here, nothing about me is.
Forty had been a nightmare. I counted the pods until I stopped being able to.
Cutting him out of the ship had not deleted him. It had only told him where to wake up.
That was the flinch. I'd finally asked the thing it didn't want asked.
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