Chapter Five
INRIT SHOULDN’T HAVE been standing so close. One moment he’d been explaining how he became what he was, the next she took a pace in front of him, hunched over, concern scrawled across her ruby face, big eyes even wider. He felt a processor stutter and his vision dimmed. An ocular upgrade had failed, and he was left to rely solely on his human vision while his system did what it could to repair the damage.
The glitch was bigger this time, and Max didn’t know what was working and what wasn’t. He stayed very still while Inrit studied him. She was worried, and if she realized just how bad things had become for him, he might not get off the space station or the ship alive.
Her fingers came forward slowly. He had enough time to pull away, to dodge. But it wasn’t his damage that k
