The conversation with Adanis stayed on my mind as I left my room. Fortunately, I had time to think about it before I reached the room where I was meant to meet everyone.
Dreyaz seemed to try to make it his mission while I was there to keep me as far away from the others as possible. Even Max was not a hop, skip, and a jump away, and sometimes, I’d get lost when trying to remember where it was. That’s just how manipulative and conniving the councilor was.
It was even more reason for me to think hard about what Adanis had said to me before his departure. Could I really go back to Earth…to the place that I personally considered home? And leave everyone else behind, knowing that I had a duty?
There was only one way to get out, and I knew that Nixon would not take his rightful place on the
