Chapter Thirty-Nine
Alina leaned against the wall of the modest apartment.
It’d been a while since she last visited the moon. She didn’t enjoy it. Like the apartment, everything felt claustrophobic. Maintaining a colony on a dead ball of rock bordered on pointless, but she acknowledged the symbolic value.
It didn’t matter. At the rate things were moving along, she wouldn’t have to remain on the moon for long.
Alina idly tapped her fingers on her thighs. “Things are working out better than I thought,” she mumbled to herself.
She had expected some success, but not this quickly. Erik was effective, but when Erik and Jia paired up, they became a force of nature.
It was obvious she would need to recruit both if she wanted to have any chance of successfully tracking down Talos. She suspect
