Chapter 18
Nova left the blankets where she’d been curled up and walked over to the console. It still showed the same thing it had an hour before - nothing but yellow icons. Every member of the crew, everyone who wasn’t one of the Limited, was dead. Dead at her hands.
She felt darkness threatening to overwhelm her, to send her running for the shelter of the blankets once more, but she shook her head and forced the urge away. It was done. She needed to focus on the future.
Focus on small steps, she told herself. First things first.
The first step was as necessary as it was unpleasant to consider. The ship currently contained a large number of dead bodies. They needed to go and the only way for that to happen would be to give orders to the Limited.
Nova found the thought of givi
