Julia lightly stepped across the loading platform leading from the floor of the hangar to the top deck of the Beidou. She’d considered a larger ship, but that brought complications. Something smaller was easier to land in most environments and situations.
BeidouFlexibility was its own strength.
It didn’t matter now. She needed to leave Earth. She’d been foolish to linger, even more so after she’d gone out of her way to warn Shoji. A woman who didn’t take the advice she offered others moved past mere foolishness to outright stupidity.
The issue went beyond her life. Necessity was a relative consideration, often shaped by arrogance rather than truth. If she died on Earth, the future would be imperiled. Gambling with her future because she wasn’t prepared to trust all her underlings was, i
