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“This is Major Stephens. Identify yourself.”
The voice crackling over the comm brought Jac’s head up sharply, and she scrambled from her seat on the floor to reach the console.
“Yes! Yes! I’m here! My name is Jac Wright. I’m on a ship called the Keris,” she gabbled. The name and rank were human, which meant a ship. A ship meant they could rescue her.
Relief flooded through her. It had been hours since she’d knocked Rynn out, but no one had answered her hail. And she had no clue how to fly an alien space ship.
“The Keris? That doesn’t sound like a Terran vessel…”
“No, no, it’s not.” She looked at the controls on the console, wondering which one activated the viewscreen so she could see Major Stephens… if his ship systems were even compatible with alien ones.
She didn’t recognize an
