Chapter Twenty-Six
After Finn left, Tina and Rex went up to their room. Tina wasn’t sure how to tell Rex about the things she had learned and the suspicions growing in her mind.
For the first part, down the hallway, they walked in uneasy silence.
Then Rex said, “You said you went back to the ship?”
“Yeah. I forgot something.”
“Oh. And the girl had come back?”
“She had. She said she was afraid of the gangs in the other parts of the station.”
They reached the door to their room, and Tina opened it, letting them into the slightly musty smell of well-used accommodation.
Then Rex said, “Did you get your thing?”
“I did.”
“Where is it?”
Tina showed him the device.
“Whoa! Do they still use those? I thought the Federacy Force used the most modern stuff.”
“They do, but this has sat in a
