The atmosphere pressed in on him, heavy and silent, a strange kind of unnatural violet twilight that only ever happened when a storm hit at sunset. Large drops of rain fell intermittently, the weather holding off for now as thunder rumbled in the near distance. If he was going to catch anything, ...
He didn’t have to get up and put on a prison uniform. He didn’t have to spend hours slaving in the administrative center. He didn’t have to wonder for the millionth time if he’d ever escape. Because he’d actually done it. He’d gotten on the Imojenna and was now light years away from the prison an...
His heart skipped a beat as audio identified the caller as Commander Yang. For half a second, a sense of doom rushed through him, thinking that somehow, someone had found out about Mia and him, leaving him wondering where the hell he was going to end up posted once Yang finished raking him over t...