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Jenna entered the shuttle bay cautiously, hand on the pistol strapped to her waist. She really didn’t want to greet the three from the shuttle with a gun in her hand, for the sake of the children at least, but at the same time she didn’t want to find herself facing weapons without being ready to respond.
The shuttle was taking most of the space within the bay. Either the woman was a pretty good pilot or the shuttle’s systems had handled entering the bay. Jenna suspected it was the latter.
She moved to the back of the shuttle where the only entrance seemed to be, noting as she did that there were no windows anywhere. That felt unusual to her. Even shuttles normally had windows, admittedly built of materials that could take massive amounts of damage. Screens and video relays were
