"It's… it's the Black Dragon!"
"Dominion is here! The cargo's compromised!"
"Fall back!"
"Out now! Push them back!"
A chorus of yells and gunfire roared through the air, each voice swallowed by the chaos around them. In an instant, the entire ship had become a battleground between Dominion and everyone aboard it.
As for Ashley, she stayed where she was, seated on top of the containers. Her eyes remained fixed on the man who had landed on top of one of the containers at the end of the row.
Lucian.
"Right," she breathed out, touching the chip she had slipped to the side of her teeth, now wedged between her molars from biting down on it.
A part of her had known Dominion would come. They would follow her to the ends of the earth whenever she tried to escape, after all. But at the same time, a strange feeling stirred in her chest the moment she saw Lucian.
A strange feeling too foreign for her to name.
Was it disbelief that they had truly arrived?
