These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

Author:Bethany Jacobs [JACOBS, BETHANY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2023-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

1664

YEAR OF THE CRUX

The Gunner

Orbiting Silt

This time, she wakes like a gun going off. A cry catches in her throat, and her body, filmed with sweat, locks up. She lies shivering, gasping at the light-speckled bulkhead above her that warps and tunnels like a journey through a jump gate.

It’s happened before. She’s an old hand at this now. Breathe, she tells herself, imagining it is Liis’s voice. Breathe. It’s only after what feels like hours of trembling effort that she remembers to exhale as well as inhale, and oxygen floods her brain. It takes minutes more to get her heart rate under control. To get the feeling back in her fingers and toes.

Why does this still happen? It was more than ten years ago. Sometimes it feels like the whole Treble has flooded the space between her and that day when Great Gra’s message came through on her comm. Until moments like this, when it might as well be happening all over again, her ocular pinging an alert:

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