Chapter 1Azrail Crow crouched low and pressed his back against the dented metal of the wall. His lungs were screaming for air, but he didn’t dare breathe. Around the corner was a creature. He didn’t know what kind. Despite having spent eight months in the bowels of Nix, a moon turned into an intergalactic prison camp, he had no idea what those around him were. Aliens, obviously, but where had they come from?
Everyone knew there were aliens. There were even humans on colonies in space since Earth was becoming a dangerous place to be—not as dangerous as to be in space, but people on Earth were insane. Yet Azrail had always deemed it best to stay put. You never knew where you’d end up once you boarded a space vessel. There were terminals, big floating cities in space where people of differen
