Chapter Twenty-Six
The Freerangers returned to their ship, leaving behind a tense silence. As soon as the group was gone, an argument broke out about whether the women should or shouldn’t have trusted them.
Tina had enough and went to her cabin hoping to get some sleep. Rae wasn’t there, and although Tina was still worried about her, she also didn’t have the time or energy for long discussions, but she still felt guilty about being glad that she wasn’t there.
Rae was an enigma in the same way Finn was difficult: paranoid, worried about strange things, and probably damaged by growing up in a world far removed from normal people’s reality.
But she could use Rae.
Tina drifted off into a few blissful hours of sleep.
When she woke up, Rae still wasn’t there, but a small light burned in th
