[POV: Sofia Lanka]

"Lyon, if you don't stop trying to pull me toward the airlock, I am going to use the last of my authorization codes to lock you in the lunar storage closet. I can’t leave. Don't you see the way the atmospheric sensors are spiking? They aren't just scanning us anymore. That obsidian hull is charging a particle beam that will turn the Southern hemisphere into a glass marble. I have to stay. I have to find a way to use the Archive’s power grid, or we won't have a home to go back to."

Sofia’s voice was a jagged rasp, vibrating with a desperate, sharp energy that...