Page 289 of Commander’s Mate
His eyes closed.
“Alive?”
“Transferred twenty-six days ago.”
“That is not what I asked.”
“I know.”
He opened his eyes.
“Confidence?”
“Medium-high.”
“Source?”
“Breskaa transport ledger.”
His hand tightened around the slate.
The mission had just changed again.
Not strategically.
Personally.
“I am sorry we did not find her today.”
He looked at me as if I had said something strange.
“We found a road.”
The same thing Sahvin had given Earth.
Not home.
A direction.
I nodded.
“Yes.”
“Then we follow it.”
“After you heal.”
His eyes narrowed.
“Harper.”
“Nora!”
He looked betrayed.
Nora appeared in the doorway.
“I heard my name.”
