SIX MONTHS AGO
The Consortium was weird and Tessa didn’t like it. The colony of humans abducted from Earth and abandoned in this system was barely whispered about back home. It wasn’t exactly a secret, but it was so far away that few people saw the point in caring about it. Of course, that was how Earth reacted to so many alien overtures and threats. Their little solar system was out of the way of the major shipping lanes and on the other side of the galaxy from the ever growing Oscavian Empire. No one was a threat to Earth and so they were content to stay in their own safe corner of space.
Most of them. Not Tessa.
Her family would have paid for medical school at any of the top establishments on Earth, the moon, or Mars. But she didn’t want to be stuck in one place when there were sight
