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Trinity, Battleship Karter, Medical Station, 18 Hours Later
I looked down at Leo’s face beneath the glass. He appeared to be sleeping, but I knew he wasn’t. I had to repeatedly remind myself that this was not a Snow White scenario. He was not in a glass coffin. He was not waiting for me to kiss him and wake him up.
He was comatose in a ReGen pod, just as he had been for more than seventeen hours. Jessica had tried to help me deal. She’d taken me on a tour of Battleship Karter—which blew my mind in a way transporting to Alera hadn’t—fed me. I’d slept in a private room in Jessica and her mates’ ship quarters.
I was the personal guest of the queen of the entire Coalition of planets. They didn’t address her as queen, they just called her Lady Deston. But the fact remained, no one argued
