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KILI“Checkmate.”
Kion grinned at me triumphantly.
I shot him a glare. “That’s because you cheated.”
“I didn’t cheat.”
“Yeah? Then why did your rook move in a very strange zigzag line just now?”
Kion didn’t seem bothered by my accusation in the slightest. “Because we’re playing space chess. I’ve changed the rules a little.”
Despite myself, I had to laugh. “And you didn’t think to share the rules with me?”
He shrugged. “Then I wouldn’t have won.”
“Then I’ll have to disappoint you by doing this.”
I moved my king out of harm’s way, doing a move Wren would have disapproved of. She’d taught us chess last night and Kion and I had been playing it ever since. Throughout the night, actually. First, a crew member had played with Wren, but when he lost, he got angry and we forced him to le
