Chapter 68
Sal clung on to the arms of her chair as the ship rocked around her. The air was thick with smoke already, now the sound of screams came through as well. She was safely wrapped in a spacesuit but she could still smell the acrid smoke and stinging odour of several electric fires through her link to the other Gifted around her.
The ship she was on was a heavily converted small freighter. It was covered in heavy armour now and the small cargo bay had been converted to hold seats that could carry people in spacesuits in safety, if not comfort.
She was strapped into one of those seats, with the best combat trained Gifted she’d been able to gather surrounding her. It was a microcosm of what was happening outside the freighter, where hundreds of Gifted ships formed protective ba
