Chapter One
Sayen was the first to notice that the shuttle they were in wasn’t flying to its scheduled destination. She was sitting in a window seat and was in no mood for talking. After telling Carl what she’d found out at the Global Government Security Headquarters, their conversation had drifted to silence. She was worried about her parents. She wondered what their message meant in terms of their own safety. They’d written that it was no longer safe for her to go home, but had they meant that it was unsafe for her because the Shadows were looking for her, or that their house was under threat of attack? She had no way of finding out because they’d also told her not to do anything that would allow them to be traced, and that included contacting them.
Her thoughts had preoccupied her so
