“Yes. Why? Are you hurt? Are some of your crew hurt?”
His answer meant she had no right to stay quiet. Maybe the Wanderer could fix the Limited, maybe it could get them back to who they used to be.
“I… there is no crew. Not exactly.” He frowned at that, but left her to speak. “I was a slave, like you, but the way I got free was… different…”
Jess sat quietly, listening intently as she told him about her run-ins with Blade followed by what was then done to Blade and most of the other prisoners. She told him about escaping into the ship’s conduits with Karina and learning to take control of the ship from the hub.
She spoke softly about Karina’s death, the pain still fresh, then about how she had survived afterwards. Finally she spoke about the day she was discovered and the s****
