Chapter Ten
Twenty minutes later, after more naan and minor detail discussions, Erik and Jia lifted off in the MX 60, zooming out of the parking garage and away from the commerce tower holding the restaurant.
The conversation didn’t weigh on Jia as much as she had expected, despite the grim warning about potential betrayal by the ID in the future.
Part of her longed to help Erik find the peace he deserved, but her involvement had never been solely about him. She’d lived her entire life thinking of Earth as a perfect place and the UTC as the ultimate chance for creating a better humanity. The idea that people with resources and power were subverting humanity’s chance at unity instead of supporting it disgusted her. If others could not stop them, why not her?
It was even worse when she t
