CHAPTER 2
The OnUnAn ship stopped accelerating as Bria approached in the cruiser. The ship resembled a disordered heap of black and gray machinery, with probability flanges pointing in random directions, like hooks on a crushed bur. Long, narrow lights that hugged the hull shed a barely visible glow, revealing uneven expanses of pitted hull metal that had the color and texture of lichen and mud. White clouds of ejecta spurted from leaning vents, feeding a cloud of dirty gasses that drifted around the ship.
Bria cut her own acceleration, and it seemed both ships fell away from the Savannah Runner as the great starship continued to accelerate for the outer system. Bria nudged the cruiser forward and signaled for a docking vector.
The OnUnAn ship began to tumble as it drifted. Bria hu
