Selah stood with Niko in an open space between the trailers in Mercury, just watching all the real, living, breathing people. There were so many of them! It was like the cafeteria at lunch-hour rush, except filled with people she didn’t know.
Selah couldn’t decide if she hated it or loved it. Eventually, she and Niko were herded into a group by curious Mercurians with questions.
Niko took the lead in answering, careful to veer around the topic of where they were from. But everyone there already knew Niko’s tricks. They dodged him, trying to get an answer out of the new girl.
But then the rumble of a car carried to them from a mile away. Everyone turned their heads from Selah to the south, watching the dust cloud grow larger as the car approached. At first, she thought it must be an enem
