Expedition 63 Book 2: Dark
Ian, Pam, Javi, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I wouldn’t have had the guts to write this story without the three of you telling me I could. And to my virtual writers’ group of Sarah, Addison, Nell, and the Boss. You guys know what you did, too. <3
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Chapter 1
Static filled the communication line as Saito pulled on the headphones.
It was his rotation at the console and the static sounded better directly in his ears than as a nebulous sound in the Harmony. In a few days, they’d mark the first year without contact from Earth after the devastation cut their access. The isolation made Saito jumpy. It was a problem he kept to himself.
It wasn’t all bad. He handled it better than most of them, at least. The crew had formed a habit of glancing at
