The Expendable Few: A Spinward Fringe Novel - Plot & Excerpts
In the near-blindingly bright light we discover that it’s become a slaughter house. Black and dark blue blood is spattered across the white and grey walls. The deck plating is scarred and pitted with signs that something with enough strength to dent metal won a fight here. “Looks like we missed the action,” Mary says, looking around, her rifle tracking with her eye line. “I just threw up a little,” Remmy replies. “You’d think ration bars tasting the same coming up as they do going down would be a good thing, but it really isn’t.” “It’s this way,” Omira says. “Are we going to try and figure out what happened at all?” I ask her. “This doesn’t match up with the expectations you set for this mission.” Omira stops and looks at me coolly. “You can’t put this mission on pause like one of your simulations.” “I’ve been on more boarding missions than you could imagine,” I tell her. “And my experience, my instincts are telling me to turn this around and get my people back to the planet.
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