Corso Donatella successfully fled almost halfway across the solar system, before realizing that the place he had been running to… was gone.
His daughter and the young man who had effectively bought her, or at least 60 years of her service, had mocked his paranoia. His paranoia had been what kept him alive. His paranoia, and his cunning.
His heart hurt. His body hurt. He knew he wasn't thinking clearly, even as he gazed at the empty region that had once held SkyWater station.
Elektra had betrayed him. He wanted to tell himself that she hadn't done it willingly. He had seen her repressing her own words, looking as though she wanted to tell him something urgent, even as she had turned him over to them… but she hadn't actually said a word.
If you are paying to read this in advance... or even a couple of weeks later I have successfully survived another year! My brain though... I really hope that this story isn't too confusing... and that each of the characters are still learning useful things along the way. If you have questions, PLEASE ask them. I don't know what I'm leaving out anymore.