บท 200: C: Outside

Brendan returned to Eks Corp Headquarters after 'their' Dragon 'accidentally' fell out an airlock.

He had listened to what felt like hours of Rafaela's worries over the last few days instead of the minutes he was usually granted from her tight schedule. He suspected the extra communication time had come directly from her sleep schedule.

She didn't want to help someone who had once been her captor. But she didn't want to abandon someone who had traveled to another System alone. As the King, she didn't have the option of stepping back and ignoring the Beyonder. When the Dragon 'fell' out of an airlock.

Brendan suspected that Rafaela thought that it was somehow her fault. The report from station surveillance and the report from the Security team assigned to the Dragon matched up though. The Dragon had entered the emergency access lock and opened it herself.