Slouching in his chair, Jack stroked his jaw with the tips of his fingers. “I don’t see how,” he replied. “It always comes down to resources. Their ground forces outnumber ours twenty to one.”
“What if we teamed up with the Leyrian army?”
“It’s no good,” Cassi protested. “We could win a thousand ground battles, and it wouldn’t make a difference. So long as they have those ships in orbit, they can pulverize us from above.”
“We need to regather the rest of the fleet,” Larani observed.
“Where are they now, Corin?” Anna inquired.
The captain scowled as he checked his multi-tool. “There are sixteen ships in orbit of Adra,” she said. “They seemed to have had the same idea we did.”
Melissa wrinkled her nose. “I’m sorry,” she broke in. “I never could remember my Leyrian stellar geography. Wh
