The Salvagers

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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“If we separate, our odds of survival go down, and make no mistake, I know odds better than anyone you ll ever meet.”

She tongued the inside of her cheek as she thought it over. ‘Interesting ...1 figured you'd be happier with me dead.”

“Oh, I might. But I should also point out that your presence seduces the chance I'll be shot first. So do we have a deal?”

He snatched up her whiskey bottle and tipped the neck slightly toward her. She clinked her tumbler against it.

“All right. Until we salvage the Harrow, consider me part of the crew.”

A BIG SHIP AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE

Harrow

Harrow

Capricious

Harrow

The Expanse

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

The Codex Alera

Alex Verus

Kings of the Wyld

* Not really, but it's the best I can come up with at the moment.

“...Hunter One and Two, standing by for orders.”

Those were the code names they'd been given. A few months ago, basking in the luxury of a PGRE hospitality suite, Nilah would've thought a code name was cool. Now, it just meant she was doing something stupid. Worse still, she was Hunter Two, and she had a pathological hatred of being second.

A BIG SHIP AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE

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