15 Sardaan had no idea what to expect when he reached the cell they’d taken his faithless mate to, but it wasn’t for the damn thing to be empty. But it was. The chains in the middle of the room where the prisoners were normally strung up dangled motionlessly, holding no one. Oddly, one set was missing. He dismissed it as maintenance. There was no way even an experienced Terran soldier like Dani could have escaped both the avatar bots and her chains. “Draanthic idiots,” he hissed as he approached the bars. A quick glance at the cell identifier on the back wall told him he was in the right block. Had the pilots gotten it wrong and taken her somewhere else? Perhaps to one of the lower blocks? “Sardaan?” He was about to turn away when Dani’s voice sounded from the darkness at the back of

