Katarina
AN ESCAPE FROM THE BASE needed to be planned.
The idea of running away filled her with despair.
It would ruin her career—
If she ever had any career to speak of, after she discovered what ISF had done at the asteroid belt.
Sanchez pretended he cared, but did he really care about what went on in the Outer System, what injustices were perpetrated in an area he couldn’t control and where he was little respected?
Or did he just care about the public image of the force, only fixing up problems when they became widely known to the masses on Earth?
Was any of this worth ruining her life?
She should have dropped out of the force and found a civilian job so that she could be with Paul. But somehow, she’d had the illusion that a military career was important to her, and that she cou
