The two Battlenauts stomped out of the cargo hold of the Sun Bin and onto the landing pad pavement. Scott put Cairn in front to keep him visible and let him take the lead in dealing with the Reds. How he planned to deal with them, what exactly he would do when the time came, was impossible to know.
Cairn carried a lot of hate around with him, much of it aimed at Scott for what had happened at Iridess Chasm. Scott had tried to get him to switch it off, to understand that Scott had never meant to let him be hurt and would have saved him if he'd known he'd survived. But was any of that enough, after so many years, to earn them a second chance? Would Scott himself have been quick to forgive under the same circumstances, if he'd been the one spirited away by Larvis Vore and subjected to u
