Chapter 39
As Jess watched the chaos aboard the station shock and horror crystallised into piercing anger. After everything he’d done to protect the station, after the risks he’d been prepared to run in taking people off, how dare they behave like this? They didn’t deserve his help! They didn’t deserve to be saved!
That thought solidified in his mind and within moments the Wanderer was enacting his wishes. Every single one of the Wanderer’s shuttles on the station sealed their doors and activated their thrusters, lifting themselves off the deck and starting to pull away. No one had reached any shuttle, though a handful had got close, so the shuttles were leaving empty.
That sight did what nothing else had managed to do. The mob of people stumbled to a halt. People stared, some op
