Paradisus Station, orbiting Tiessa—two weeks later
A person could spend an entire year on the Paradisus Station and find something new to do every single day. The largest space station in the Galileo system, it housed over one hundred thousand regular employees, crew, and staff, and from Tiessa, it looked like an actual moon. It even glowed like one, blinking blue and red as it circled the planet in a slow orbit. A shuttle docked with it once a day, dropping off new guests and whisking away exhausted vacationers who would need a separate vacation to recover from their time on the Paradisus.
Ares strolled through one of the eight botanical levels. This particular garden featured flowers, trees, and birds from the jungles of Phraedrus. Through the green leaves and flowering limbs, he caugh
