“Let’s get going.” Zero nudged her arm and they started walking.
It didn’t take them long to reach the comms tower, just a few minutes’ walk, but by the time they’d reached it, all her senses were on high alert. Unfriendly eyes watched them. She just hadn’t worked out yet if it was the kind of unfriendly that would start shooting at them. If so, the new alien laser-blasters strapped to her hips were a reassuring weight. Even if they weren’t actually laser-blasters. Zero and the other Warborne had rolled their eyes when she’d insisted on calling them that. And she’d joined them, ignoring Sparky making pew-pew-pew sounds back in the ship’s airlock.
She slid her arm through Zero’s, cuddling up close as though they were a couple. Well, she guessed they were, really, but that wasn’t why she’d
