Chapter Fifty-Two “Separating Argo,” Jia announced. She took a moment to double-check her status readouts and diagnostics. They had not taken heavy damage during the fight against the Qilin, but they had not been untouched, either. Lanara had worked wonders in a short time, and Jia was confident they could fight. It didn’t matter if they won as long as they convinced the Zitarks of the honor of the UTC. Fighting the Core had become second nature, but Tensen was right. Fighting the Core alongside the Zitarks was almost stranger than taking on the Hunters. If a time traveler had come to Jia right after that fateful night when she first met Erik and told her everything she was going to go through, she wasn’t sure if she would have quit the department right then and there and moved to a dif