Chapter 80

believe.

The deck vibrated as the jump drive charged. A haze of shifting blue-

green light—a spatial distortion—formed around the ship. The light

intensified as the ship slipped into subspace. Time elongated for a moment as

they made the transition, and then the starscape was replaced by a sea of

ethereal light.

Navigation beacons were positioned at most worlds—sometimes multiple

—but the Elvar Trinary had done its best to remain separated from the Taran

Empire. There was only a single navigation beacon nearby, located at an

intermediary point between four systems, one of which was the Elvar Trinary

of Leon’s birth. Two of the other systems were uninhabited and used for

resource mining, but the third had a permanent ban on entry. Leon wasn’t

sure why, but he’d been taught from a young age to avoid Gaelon.

The subspace jump to that exit beacon would take a little over two hours,

and it would then take the better part of a day to reach their destination at