Chapter
Nine
Dynamics
Everyone was gathered in the bay
when Transport Three arrived. StarLight stood in the back, legs apart,
arms crossed over her chest as she watched the largest ship in the Guardian
fleet touch down in its cradle. A hand barely grazed her back.
"You have nothing to
fear," Hunter softly reminded her.
"I know. I know. Still..."
She couldn't help the queasy,
nauseated foreboding roiling around in her stomach. Her memories of her home
life, and what life she'd had before becoming a Guardian, were not happy ones.
They were filled with helplessness and hopelessness, instances of extreme
depression and fear, and ultimately of desertion. And the man about to disembark
off the ship was the sole cause of all her misery.
She thought she had pushed all the
anger an
