Naomi’s Pov;

I didn’t see Cassian for hours after he left the storage wing.

The base stayed tense all morning, people moving fast but quietly, as if everyone knew something had gone wrong but nobody dared ask. Mara avoided my eyes. Rubio kept to the comms. Even the guards outside my door looked uneasy.

When the silence stretched too long, I went looking for him.

I found him in one of the old side rooms near the generator hall. The door was half-open. Inside, Cassian stood with his back to me, one hand gripping the edge of a table. A single lamp burned on the desk, throwing his shadow long...