LIS LEFT HER FELLOW humans behind and went in search of Ru. At first, she planned to go back to the ship, hoping that he would eventually end up there. But as she turned down the hall outside the marketplace, her intuition pinged, telling her to go right instead of left.
She had no reason to trust it, but Lis could feel a pull of some kind coming from that direction. She was absolutely certain that Ru was there. She just had to find him.
Running on instinct, she took the hallways quickly, barely noticing where she went. In the end, she stumbled into a small cove of shops just in time to see Ru step out of one, the door closing behind him.
The rest of the people in this section of the station might as well have ceased to exist. She could feel the universe shift, the axes realigning until
