Chapter 9: Finish Line
Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.
—Vincent Lombardi
Terrestrial sports figure
Bred could see no better course than to go along with his sister’s wishes. Nothing more could be done here, and Johnathan had deliberately made his sacrifice so they could win. To deny that triumph now would make his death a mockery.
“She’s right, Luuj,” he said with a sigh. “Let’s get out of here before the tidal wave from that bomb sweeps up to our end of the pits.”
“If we can,” the captain muttered under her breath.
Minds numbed by tragedy now had to wrench themselves away from it and concentrate on the business at hand. Fortunately, the preliminaries had all been completed while Johnathan was setting the fatal bomb; all that was left now was to start the ship in moti
