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“Okay . . . Not what I wanted to hear,” Max said, pinching the bridge of his nose and blowing out a breath. “Aid, don’t make me use my mom voice on you. I will, then we’ll both feel very awkward afterward.”

“Even after they’ve been declared unfit for duty?” Max asked, raising an eyebrow. “There was an accident. I don’t know the details, but he almost lost his leg and still has problems with it. Why would they decide he was fit for duty again after over a decade?”

Aidan just needed to find something that was broken, and considering how often things in these places seemed to break down, he doubted that was going to be a hard thing to find. 

Aidan tilted his head as he thought over what she’d just said. “You’re space pirates? That’s original.”

The thought that he wouldn’t be seeing Terra for a long time to come was a little bit disconcerting. The only time he’d left the solar system was by accident, and he didn’t have to deal with this annoying feeling that he’d forgotten something.

Blowing out a breath, Max felt like he’d been through the wringer. Glancing over at Aidan, Max realized he looked like he felt the same way. “You okay?” he asked, moving and dropping back into his seat.
Aidan looked at him and blinked. “No, not really.”

The Queen’s gaze shifted to Aidan, and she instantly stood a little straighter as her eyes narrowed. “Bomick!” she spat. “Secure him, I will send one of my lieutenants to retrieve him. Well done, Joota.”
With that, the hologram flickered out.

He was out of breath by the time he reached the part of the city with the malfunctioning stabilizer. There was over six-hundred of them scattered throughout the Ark in three group clusters.
Unfortunately, if one cluster went down, it caused a chain reaction and took down its section of the ship. And without all cluster working properly, the ship wouldn’t be able to stabilize enough for them to fire back at the Novans

“Is that in question?” he asked. “Because I have no intentions of crashing this thing.” He swallowed. “I would imagine it’s not exactly cheap.”
Wilcox snorted. “No kidding,” he muttered, shaking his head as he glanced at the time. “Well, we’ll be launching soon so I’ll be heading to my quarters to catch some Zs. I’ll be back in three hours to take over.”

“Oh…? Well, at least we know now who to blame if something happens to the ship,” Max said, giving Aidan’s arm a nudge.
But Aidan didn’t roll his eyes like Max expected, instead, he turned his attention back to his tablet as he turned it back on. “Yes,” he mumbled. “The same person you’ll be expecting to fix it.”