Chapter 31
31 Ryker leaned against the cold wall of her quarters and stared into the fluorescent red emergency lights. Following the first explosion, she asked Sergeant Dak in the hall about the situation. He said an internal fire had broken out, scrambling all communications onboard. Motioning her back into her quarters, Dak yelled into the worthless communicator. Taking a deep breath, she locked her fingers together at her belt. If the station were under attack from outside forces, Captain Rampa would have ordered her to the hangar. But the communications onboard had been knocked out, so how could he have sent orders to her? She shook her head. There were many more pilots on board to do the bidding of Rampa and the Zahl Empire. The sound of soldiers and crew running outside her quarters echoed.
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