Chapter 33: Sun

"It's a bomb," Minnesota said.

Sun wasn't sure what to feel. After everything they had been through, to have this new challenge thrown in their faces... she was much calmer than she should have been, and wondered what she was becoming that it didn't really bother her all that much.

"You're certain? Never mind," Archer waved off Minnesota's answer. "I trust you two. But it's inactive, right? It's dead."

"We think so," the grounder girl agreed. "From what I could tell and from Sammel's guesses, it's not a com device or an egg," Sun swallowed hard at that thought. "It's full of some kind of propellant I've never seen before, and has a hard core of siminite." The same mineral powering their star drive. "Highly explosive."

Sammel nodded, face grim. "Bomb."

Minnesota sighed. "The only way to know if it's dormant is to go back and make sure." "How do you expect to do that?" Miguel jumped on Sun's nerves about as much as