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  1. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    He watched her draw under the fire's flickering light. Communication hub. Docking station. Specialized rooms marked from memory after four years. Rotation patterns, the comms risk flagged before I even thought to ask. She didn't just survive in this cave, she was working. And she said "we."...
  2. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    Eleven of them. She's been running intelligence on them from this cave for eleven months. Alone. No training partner, no backup, no one to talk through the tactical picture with. Just her, the gravity, and an entire squad who wanted to find her and get her back by any means necessary. And...
  3. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    He let her have the distance. His hand came off her knee. He stayed where he was, weight forward, elbows on his knees, watching her talk. Synthetic modifications. Conversion program. Years of 100g conditioning to harden the body for the process. Changelings running it. Fridgt running her. And...
  4. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    He heard the cut-off: Fridgt. Decidedly a Changeling name. Corsetta pulled it back before it could go anywhere, and he let her pull it back, because she'd given him enough to know what it meant that she stopped there. Veston had no right to pry open that vault, but he could knock on the door...
  5. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    He let out a slow breath through his nose, leaned forward another inch, and looked at her with the full weight of his attention. The embers from the broken log drifted up and faded. He watched them go, and the fire settled back to its modest glow, and the cave went quiet except for the low...
  6. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    The count ran again, faster, and landed somewhere different than it had the first time. Four years under a hundred times standard gravity. Not eleven months of hiding — four years of living in conditions that would have ended most people before the hiding even started, and then the escape...
  7. Veston

    A Year in the Dark

    The North Wind came in low over red rock, following the coast of one of Zoon's long snake-backs of land, and Veston watched the terrain scroll past the viewport and thought about the kind of person who'd end up here. Not end up here by accident. End up here and stay. Zoon pressed down on...
  8. Veston

    Human Veston

    VESTON The Golden Sword of Earth Human, Martial Artist · Innate Mastery · Technical Prowess · Human Tenacity · Good · Age 24 ═ APPEARANCE Veston is tall and built heavy, six and a half feet of muscle packed onto a frame that was made to swing a greatsword and has done little else since...
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