Chapter 256: Toil & Trouble

Amal and Kali both wrenched the semi-reinforced door wide open with only marginal difficulty. Xylo hopped right on through with her pistol held at the high ready. Claire came in right behind, but held her pistol with a low ready.

Miko’s cottonball drones then buzzed past them, down the side hallway, and out to the rest of the hab.

The Ravens followed after them with incredible urgency, and delved into the dingy, dirty hab as quickly as they could.

Most of the rooms they encountered were dusty and threadbare and hardly lived in, as though the hab itself was abandoned. Then they found the stairs going down to the bottom floor, where the ripe, musty smell of sweat and mildew overpowered their noses.

It was all one large open space, with a medical table with constraints in the very center. They saw the shrine wall to Eva, and a variety of terminals, datapads, medical equipment, and other things scattered everywhere else.