Nexus. Lindsay Cummings
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“Never,” Lon confirmed, wiping at the clouded window. “It doesn’t snow back on Adhira, and until we went to Arcardius, I’d never once left home. My job was to protect Adhira, not leave it. All the Sentinels made vows to my aunt Alara, to protect the Mountain of Rhymore.”
“A soldier’s vow,” Andi aknowledged with a curt nod. “Something I broke long ago.”
“Looks like we’re all deserters,” Dex said, thinking of how he’d lost his Guardian status years before, too. General Cortas had promised to reinstate him after he and Andi had retrieved Valen from Lunamere, but the general’s manipulations and untimely death had prevented him from fulfilling his end of the bargain to Dex.
Lon looked down at his boots. “How far we’ve fallen.”
“You didn’t break your vow to Alara,” Andi told him. “You served her and Adhira faithfully, until her death. Now you can serve whomever you wish.”
Dex nodded in agreement. He’d been just a few months old when he left Tenebris for the first time. Although he didn’t remember the journey, he knew it must’ve been the first time he’d bonded with the stars. Ever since, he’d longed to be among them, traveling to the deepest corners of the galaxy. That bond was what had initially connected him to Andi. They both saw an opportunity out there, in the spaces between the stars—a place where they could live out the wildest parts of their dreams.
“We need a plan,” Andi said, drawing everyone’s attention back to the matter at hand. She grabbed the portable holoscreen off the console, which fortunately hadn’t been damaged in the crash. Dex joined Andi as she pulled up a miniature rotating Solera, wrapped by its rings. She zoomed in on a spot in the middle of a jagged ice field. “This is where we landed—the closest city isn’t for a thousand clicks. We’ll need a ship, or a transport of some kind, to make it there alive in this weather.”
Solera was an ice giant in the Tavina System. It was heavily populated, but every resident lived within one of Solera’s seven domed cities, as the elements were too harsh to bear year-round. As a result, most of the planet’s surface was uninhabited and devoid of civilization, which meant they were unlikely to find help all the way out here.
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