10
Jamie
The day had gone from grasping that everything was real, that I was on Velerion with Alex, to being too real. I’d woken up considering the Starfighter Training Academy a game.
I’d resolved myself to the fact that it wasn’t a game at all.
Yet even after I’d accepted that Alex was telling me the truth, I’d still just been playing. The way Alex looked at me. Kissed me. Touched me. Meeting the others on the moon base. Seeing my beautiful ship, the Valor? That had all been real. But the Dark Fleet? Still hadn’t registered as a threat, as a real, living, flesh-and-blood enemy.
Not any longer. I’d seen them. Fought them. Killed them.
I understood their evil now. The way they taunted like a cat would a trapped mouse.
It was real. My desire to end Queen Raya and see peace come to Ve
