Legion in Exile by Evan Currie

Author:Evan Currie [Currie, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Nova Caledonia

Jin relaxed as she took in the sweet and salty air that was so different from the recycled sludge she’d gotten used to onboard ship.

Eryn had found them a place for rent, nothing to the standards of the Imperial Family of course, but a surprisingly nice little place built into a high hill overlooking the high, endless seas of Antarian Twelve. Combined with the peaceful reception they’d received, something of a novelty when travelling with Eryn she was coming to think, she was finally starting to feel like death wasn’t stalking them from around the next bend.

Everything that was going on out in the galaxy was a nightmare, of course, and her guts roiled every time she thought about what her world… her empire… was doing to people, but Jin couldn’t help but enjoy the downtime all the same. It had been too long, and the stress had become so much part of her life since her mother’s birthday that she’d come to be so used to it that she only noticed it by its absence.

They’d been at Nova Cal, or just The Cale by the locals, for a couple days while Eryn searched for any sign of her eldest brother. Carmine was not being particularly easy to track down, however, which both worried her and in an odd way provided comfort.

If Eryn was having issues finding any trace of the man, then hopefully Imperial assassins would have had the same. She could hardly muster any real hope, though, such emotions had become painful for her when they were inevitably destroyed by the events rolling on and over her… but still, she couldn’t help but feel it bloom just a little, despite the oppressive despondency that had become part of her life.

So, she kept herself busy while Eryn searched, focusing on learning what she could about the assets she had to her name… which, certainly weren’t much, all things considered. Her implant suite, some tactical armor, and a partial claim on a ship that really only barely qualified by many standards.

Still, it was more than she knew how to properly work, so there was learning to be done.

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Eryn was becoming a bit of a staple feature around the small community that made up the bulk of The Cale proper. A population of barely a hundred thousand souls made for a nice little city, but only just that. The rest of the population of the Archipelago was spread out quite a bit, making Caledonia about eighty percent of the planet’s population.

The rest was scattered here and there across the other island ranges that existed, mostly by people who didn’t want contact with others for one reason or another. Eryn expected that there were more than a few shady types in that twenty percent, but likely not as much as there would otherwise be due to the difficulty of landing and then getting back into orbit.

Smugglers, pirates, and the like didn’t much appreciate adding significant costs and risks to their ventures… even if they got some extra privacy in exchange.

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