Grand Horizons, Pt 2

Both Eva and Miko turned to each other with eyes wide open. Complete surprise was etched on their faces by what the Admiral had just said. The last time they had seen her, she had still been utterly consumed by her experimental core and its code.

“That’s quite an apology,” Eva said. “I mean, isn’t that court-martial territory? You’re literally giving a Naval prototype weapon to a bunch of felons and defectors.”

“I won’t lie,” the admiral replied. “What I’m doing is a huge risk to my own career. Like you said, a court-martial for sending technology to a hostile actor. They’d isolate me out on some planet somewhere, for the rest of my life. But there’s a whole lot of reasons why I’m doing this.

“The first is that I feel truly guilty about my brother. You warned me about him and his… obsession with you. I should have taken you more seriously. I should’ve… I should’ve done a whole lot more back then.”