Chapter 18The Red Palace echoed with cheers, as the sky surrounding the station lit up with the biggest fireworks display anyone had seen. Only the original breach and a few other areas that had been breached in tests already didn’t light up. Torpedoes launched from the station, two hundred of them, in every direction, plowed into the Maze, burrowed on through it, destroying bomblets and scattering the dust. The dust cloud would not completely disappear, though it would start to dissipate slowly. The view would be murky for a while. But the bombs were gone. The Maze was gone. And Max saw tears on Tai’s face, reflecting the light from the explosions. They stood looking up at the display, in a room where Li had once held parties, on the outer deck of the cylindrical station. The ceiling was
