Kalev’s POV

The transport back to the Capital felt longer than the one that had brought us to Sector 6. It wasn’t the distance. It was the silence.

Senna sat across from me again, her posture angled slightly toward the window. She stared out at the long stretch of sky and the thin haze of cloud. It had been hard for her, the whole ordeal. But she’d gotten what she came for. She’d gotten revenge of Kalen. Plus she was in the process of changing the games for the better.

She hadn’t spoken though since we left. I was giving her space.

“Mira told me she was basically blackmailed into...