“Very well.” The other man turned and stormed off down the corridor. Jack opened his mouth to say something but clamped it shut again a moment later. Sometimes, when someone was determined to be a loner, the best thing you could do was let them be alone. Try to force kindness on someone who didn’t want it, and you would only succeed in making them more set in their ways. He sighed and resumed his walk through the ship. Anna sat on the couch with her legs stretched out, a tablet held up in front of her face. She was reviewing the footage from the portable recorder that she had left in the ziarogati lab. ziarogatiOn the screen, she saw a huge room with three pulsing cocoons. The dead cyborg was lying on the floor in a pool of silver blood. Poor Melissa. Having to fight that thing on her

