Chapter Fourteen
Something was happening out on the shuttle field. Something bad. But the comm Ethan received had been garbled. All he’d understood was, He’s got Zhang, Leader and, You better get here right away. When he tried to raise the person who had comm’d him there was no reply.
After days of searching the Nova Fortuna for materials to salvage and organizing their retrieval, Ethan had been on his way to the clinic to see Cariad to try to put things right between them, but he was forced to divert. As he ran to the field, another comm arrived from someone else. This time the message was clear: “Someone’s threatening the shuttle pilot. She refused to let him board because he was armed.”
“Okay,” Ethan replied. “I’m nearly there.”
The familiar shape of one of the Mistral’s shuttles ca
