Chapter Ten
“Almost there,” the flitter pilot called over the comm. “We’re right outside the jamming zone. The other teams are in position, and we’re preparing to insert.”
Jia jerked slightly, torn from her thoughts. She’d gotten so used to her or Emma flying the team around that it felt unnatural to have someone else do it.
When she and Erik arrived at the hangar to get their equipment, they also found a pilot waiting for them. Alina reasoned that clever tricks with line-of-sight laser control might not work given the situation, and it’d be better to have a dedicated human pilot on a major Core raid.
“At the rate things are going, we’ll have a whole fleet answering to us,” she muttered. “Does that make me an admiral?”
“What was that?” Erik asked.
“Just remembering what it was like w
