Which, because of her father being Ezhya’s second, was pretty much the same thing.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t need to know that.” Breaking through the protocol always left me feeling guilty. Had I been Coldi, and had I actually understood these relationships, she would never have told me.
She touched my cheek with a gloved hand. “Hey, I love you because you’re always doing unexpected things. Life is never dull with you.”
Geez, thanks, Thay’.
She unclicked her gun from the bracket on her arm. She didn’t offer me a weapon, probably judging me a menace in zero-g, and probably being right about that. She grabbed my arm with her free hand and pushed off. We floated across the vast empty space again. I was glad for the infallible Coldi sense of direction, because I had no idea even where we had co
