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This information was concerning enough to make my stomach hurt, but I tried to keep the faith.

“Well, we’re still in the air so that’s a good sign, right?” I asked.

Cyburn didn’t answer. I swallowed hard and buried my head and concentration into Silver’s control panel. If I focused my attention on her, I couldn’t have a panic attack about whether we were going to fall out of the universe and die.

“We’re in orbit around the asteroid belt,” Cyburn assured me as if reading my mind. “We can’t just fall out of the universe.”

I knew he was right, but it did little to appease my anxiety about the situation.

“We nailed two ships thought, at least,” Nix said.

“It’s better than nothing,” Cyburn agreed.

“You took them out completely?” I questioned.

“Well,” Cyburn chuckled, and Nix followed suit, “they exploded like a fireball in front of us so I’m guessing they’re gone for good.”

I released a slow breath, muttering to myself, "Thank God."

“The other two warped away,” Cyburn said.

“They’ll be back, though,” Nix said, his tone somber.

“We’ll be long gone by then,” Cyburn declared.

“Where are we going to go?” I asked.

“Further into this asteroid belt,” Cyburn said.

I knew he was used to being on the run and fleeing from these Belic creatures, but I wasn’t. I was daunted by the whole thing and worrying about what chaos lay around every corner.

I loved Cyburn, but I was beginning to question my life choices.

Sure, it would have been a lot easier to have been dropped off at one of the intergalactic embassies with the other abducted humans, but sometimes the easiest route wasn’t always the most rewarding in the end.

I did my best to convince myself of that mantra and to live by it. If I didn’t, my fear would soon devour and destroy me.

ChapterFive

CYBURN

“Amada? Can you hear me?” I was sitting in the captain's seat, staring out the window into nothingness. “Amada, do you copy? If you’re there, I really need to talk to you.”

The blackness of the universe was like an empty void swallowing us all. Somewhere, out there in it, Amada was getting away and there was little to nothing I could do about it.

The dust, dirt, and rocks stretched out to oblivion, making up the spirals of the asteroid belt.

“Even if shecouldhear you, do you even think that she’d respond?” Carmela asked, sitting next to me in the co-captain’s chair.

I looked at my beautiful, spunky, adorable lover. She blinked at me with huge, impressionable eyes.

“I honestly don’t know either way.”

“It’s worth a chance,” Carmela said.

I took a deep breath. Fatigue had depleted my energy. “I need answers.”

Carmela reached out and stroked my hand. “I know you do.”

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