Kez stifled a yawn with her fist. Goodness, she was tired! She sat behind the starboard console in the cockpit of a little Justice Keeper shuttle.
There wasn’t much to see: just another console on her left where Alu sat with his hands folded in his lap. A gently-sloping ramp led down to the pilot’s seat where Larani had her back turned. In the window, a single point of light floated in the void.
They were at warp.
Reclining in her chair, Kez shut her eyes and tried to collect herself. Larani had insisted on disclosing everything she had done at the factory. Which only made sense. Sneaking around was what had led to all this trouble in the first place. Alu was right; deception only made things worse.
The burst of warmth and love and pride that she felt from Jessa was almost enough to ma
