Chapter Eleven
Jia didn’t know if the near emptiness of the station was a good sign, but it did help reduce the number of conversations they needed to have before they ended up at Captain Ragnar’s office.
She didn’t mind talking to her old colleagues, but now that she knew Alina might be calling them up, she’d prefer to spend time with Erik without explosives or gunfire involved.
When they finally arrived in front of the captain’s office, the bearded man waited inside behind his desk, as large as Jia remembered him from their last meeting. He used to be one of the few people she regularly talked to who could make Erik seem small in comparison, an impressive feat.
Captain Ragnar gestured for them to enter.
He was smiling, but reading too much into that might be premature. Jia didn’t re
