Chapter 9
HazelSpace prison was not what she expected. First, the detainment facility wasn’t in space, just at a spaceport. Second, there were no glass cubes containing the most hardened criminals in the galaxy.
There was one room with a glowing blue force field for a door and Seeran doing tai-chi. At least it looked like tai-chi, maybe a violent tai-chi. Many of the motion seemed designed to have a blade at the end slashing and twisting. It was oddly beautiful.
People were talking. Hazel didn’t pay them any mind. Bureaucrats were being bureaucrats. It was all red tape and measuring d***s. She watched Seeran, looking for any sign that he was pleased she was there, that she was his match. His posture relaxed, opened for a brief moment, and she rushed into his embrace. She pressed into t
