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Pony Express called it an accident.
Robyn Nusume calls it what it was—an erasure. A disappearance no one cared enough to explain. So when they offer her a position aboard The Tulpar—the very ship her sister Anya once served on, the very ship that should’ve been dismantled, scrapped, buried—Robyn accepts.
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It was never meant to be like this.
Jimmy was meant to die with the cool metal of the bullet that had embedded itself in the folds of his soft, stupid human brain. It should have been the end—the final act of a man seeking some twisted sort of redemption he didn't deserve.
Blood pooled beneath his still head, the gun laying on the floor next to him. The floor was slick with red, seeping into the grooves and cracks and becoming one with the ship itself. The hallucinations, the voices, the overwhelming fear, the guilt that tore him apart in his last hours.
Every last bit of it—
Gone with Jimmy.It should have meant peace. Silence. The weight of responsibility lifted.