Chapter Ten
Sayen Lee was deep in concentration when her comm sounded. She was sitting at her cabin’s interface screen manually calculating starjumps. It was an old habit from the days when she worked aboard prospecting starships. The mental exercise calmed her and distracted her from excessive worrying about her brother, Phelan, who was heavily involved in rooting out the remaining Shadows on Earth.
She’d been figuratively kicking her heels aboard the Camaradon for the last two weeks, and she’d gotten increasingly bored. Admiral Pacheco had assigned her the role of second navigator after the frigate she’d served aboard last had been incapacitated in a skirmish. But the Camaradon’s first navigator was entirely competent at his job as well as irritated by her hanging around. Effectively,
