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My body jerked forward as if pulled by an invisible cord, one made of my love for her, my need to protect. I might not have been able to see it, but that didn’t matter—it was the strongest thing in the universe.
Once free of theDaredevil, I used my boot thrusters to catch up to her, and we waited for everyone to make it out of the airlock and spread out enough that we could use our thruster packs without catching each other in the super-heated exhaust.
I clasped her right hand in my left, then started both our thrusters.
Vivv let out an excited whoop as we shot forward, the surface of the moon growing ever closer.
Gravin and Car-Raa followed, also flying tandem, with Raxnor and Sul flanking all of us and ready to help if anyone needed it.
“This is amazing!” Car-Raa called out.
“It really is!” Vivv said. “I want training on how to use one of these thruster packs.”
“You’ll get it,” I promised.
Although too small to have atmosphere, the moon did have gravity, and I lessened our angle incrementally the closer we got to adjust. The cratered surface continued to roll past below us, and a shape appeared on the horizon.
“There it is,” Gravin growled.
“I’m going to fly ahead and assess the target,” Raxnor said.
Sul called out, “Don’t get shot!”
The infiltration expert’s only answer was a growl as he kicked his thruster into high burn and darted ahead of the rest of us, angling outward to make a loop around the building.
“The scans didn’t find gun emplacements,” Gravin said.
“Doesn’t frekking hurt to say it anyway,” Sul countered, and Car-Raa agreed with him.
I sighed, falling back on one of our in-jokes. “It’s not going to do any good if I ask you to cut the chatter, is it?”
“Nope!” Sul crowed.
A muffled snort from Vivv made me grin. I’d hoped to break the tension ramping up as we grew closer to the building. No longer a smudge on the horizon, its boxy shape grew clearer the closer we got.
We’d gotten only a basic view of it before the scanners on theDaredevilhad died. There’d been no ships visible, and the building itself wasn’t large. But that didn’t mean there wasn’t a much larger facility waiting underground, holding who knew what.
“All clear,” Raxnor said.
And just like that, all my tension returned.
“Why does this feel like another trap?” Vivv said.
“Do you want to turn back?”
“Oh, hell no!”
There was my hellcat. I squeezed her fingers.
“Landing is going to take some tricky maneuvering,” Sul said. “Frekking gravity frekking everything up.”
“Our spacewalk expert finds gravity a personal affront.” Gravin’s tone held a dry amusement he only let show with his friends.
“It’s fine on planets,” Sul said. “But if I’m flying in my spacesuit, I don’t want frekking gravity messing up my moves.” He did a graceful loop in the air, his large body moving effortlessly.
“Stop showing off and help them land,” Raxnor grumped.
“Right.” Sul gave us a series of instructions.
