Where to Go

After a brief, tense silence, Snakehead asked seriously, "So what's the plan? Are you really thinking about operating in this limbo with us?"

"Your business is too cautious and boring. I might as well be a pirate," she replied with a nonchalant shrug.

Snakehead clicked his tongue in disbelief. "I'm telling you, with your skills, you could fit in anywhere else!"

On Voidstar No. 1, there was one person at level nine, and Snakehead had heard countless stories of level nines falling to Lyra's prowess.

And the space pirates who exceeded that level? They didn't even call themselves pirates; they ruled fixed planets like independent nations, outside the control of the Alliance and the Empire.

Calm as a Queen unconcerned by her eunuch's anxieties, Lyra stated, "I'm just suspended, not expelled."

As long as the higher-ups still believed in her, she had a shot at redemption.