Neron Skies

g at me. “You wanted to know how everything worked. And I knew, even ba

sigh, guilt rolling

looks back at me now, his eyes glistening. “I hate that everything played out the way

any words. So he rolls out of his bunk. He takes a step forward,

u always,”

the promise we’ve said to e

nd ducks back out of the bunkr

ning my back to the room. I

find yourse

smart and have wisdom.

I’ve lost myself. I feel like I don’t know who I

hate

know that much

the mechanical room, touching the Neron core of the ship, making it swirl

. Not about my keeping those rocks from crushing me. Not about my run-in with

least that much I sti

asteroid bel

me. I jerk my hands back from the Neron core and it

, but Zayne is looking at his holotab, t

I’m thankful that it’s only now that he

attention, he’d hear how my voice

, I follow Zayne out o

n. Dad and Reena are already strapped into the sec

His fingers are plugged into the controls. There’s a holographic monitor displayed in front o

n front of us, blocking our c

ills, bot,” Zayne says. He sits forward, his

antly shooting through the galaxy, but now, at

xcept our direction changes

oat, and Reena says some

denly shoot to the left and the

I yell, because there are all kinds o

holotab. “But they aren’t staying on an exact course. I think

moving targets for space r

one of the asteroids, and it has

es, piloting the ship,

it, and Zayne sees it

de, and they break

and his hands grip the controllers, ripping control from th

nning and spinning, so fast my

ear the thud