Nero Nights

t’s schedule yet, but somehow I know it’s e

y chin. My body is relaxed and

cause I have some deg

omething I’m not. After weeks of hiding everythi

ust N

s still asleep. He’s sprawled on his back but his head

re he’s roughly five solars older than me. But he looks incr

is lips are pink and soft. There aren’t any cr

looks pe

if someone besides Cyrillius had saved him from Starvis. What k

s in our nature, and how much

had been Cyrillius who had found me

t could drive me mad, but in the end,

at we are both trying

leeping and head out in

when I find where some of them had been knocked loose, but then I’m quickly disap

them, going from on

cal panel that ha

do something. But I know it isn’t our bigge

vert the energy of Neron into what powers the ship, looking

ck?” he

ything looks fine. “I found one issue, but I kn

omething to eat, fir

ed, my stomach gives a m

t Valen just laughs and extends a hand up to

we walk and the

clinging to everything, making the world glitter as the s

ion. The temperatures dip their col

eak. There is white at the top of it.

around. Leaves on the ground, snow up in the mount

rroundings. “It’s hard to tell right now. We should t

winter conditions once, on a planet during our run aboard The Corsair, and it was brutal. I’m

“There’s wat

r right, where the sun is just breaking. But out across the

e kind that keep their leaves and needles

aims for the tree line. I follow behind h

lanet?” I ask as I follow him do

summons a Neron spear and slices his way through the underbrush. “But Kae

is getting me wet and it’s still quite co

some heat right now,” I say, w

etending to work for Cyrillius when we made our break. I don’t have my

y don’t ha

” Valen says, looking over

t into a skipping race. “Not i

, and he sounds abs

es and I stop at Valen’s

g way to the pristine surface of a lake. It stretches lo

ts ledges and rocks on its way down, creating a massive spray of mist. As th