Legacies (Galaxy's Edge Book 11) by Jason Anspach & Nick Cole

Author:Jason Anspach & Nick Cole [Anspach, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Galaxy's Edge Press
Published: 2021-05-03T22:00:00+00:00

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Keel went over the edge of the building that served as the trial ground. Everything Lao Pak had told him about the event had been accurate. Keel just had to live long enough to follow things to the next development.

And seeing as he’d just used up the last of his jump juice, that meant surviving the fall.

Zora was supposed to be somewhere beneath him, following his instructions via comm, but in the split seconds where Keel was over the edge and dropping, he saw no sign of the ship. His eyes went wide and his stomach dropped and then Clara’s Gift was beneath him and he landed on her hull before he had time to even begin to process all the ways he might flatten and come apart at the end of the long drop.

The upper hatch opened and Keel climbed his way down, relieved. He found Zora waiting for him in her bunk, which the upper hatch led to. Keel was as surprised about this as he had been about the temporary absence of the ship.

Zora closed the hatch and removed the “cape” that Keel had worn with the armor. “Look at this,” she said, putting a finger through a blaster hole in the fur and then flinging the thing at Keel’s feet in disgust. “I sleep with that thing, you know. That’s how I keep warm.”

Keel removed Tyrus Rechs’s helmet. “Way I remember it you sweat outside the covers most of the night anyway. Those ventilation holes will help. I did you a favor.”

“Pretty sure I’m the one doing the favors around here,” she grumbled, folding up the fur blanket and tossing it on her bunk. She pointed to the loft’s exit. “Out.”

Keel raised his hands in surrender. “I’m goin’.” He started down the ladder, but paused when only his head and shoulders were visible. “I’ll buy you a new one, Zora.”

“Out,” she repeated.

Keel climbed down to the hold and tossed the helmet to Garret. “All yours again, kid.” He moved to the sonic shower and then stopped in his tracks. “Who’s flying the ship?”

“Clara,” Garret said.

“Who’s Clara?”

“That’s what I call the AI. Didn’t have a name, and Clara seemed to fit since that’s what the ship is called. I haven’t run it by Zora yet. She just called it ship, same as you did on the—”

Garret looked up at the ladder, and Keel followed his gaze to see Zora, halfway down and now frozen in place.

“Do you mind?” the kid asked her. “About Clara?”

“No,” she said. Softly. Somberly. Then… “I’m going to take us out of atmo. Excuse me.”

She walked to the cockpit and closed the door behind her.

“What was that about?” Garret asked.

Keel continued on toward the sonic shower. “Old wounds, kid.”

“About the AI?”

Keel shrugged. “Couldn’t tell you what it’s about… but I know that look and I know that voice.”

He peeled off his armor, stripping down to his underwear. The kid was staring at him. Keel looked down and saw the angry red marks that

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