Until today. The message arrived at 04:17 ship time, encrypted and flagged Priority: Vermilion . Skyla was in the middle of a 22-hour shift, elbow-deep in a malfunctioning atmospheric scrubber. She wiped her hands on her jumpsuit and opened the comm.
"I accept," she repeated, "with one condition." skyla novea - the promotion
"Mysterious," Director Halix echoed, tasting the word. "One had a nervous breakdown. One was reassigned to a garbage scow near Betelgeuse. And one…" He glanced at the silver-haired woman. "One simply vanished." Until today
"Your predecessor," Eris Venn added gently, "tried to go to the authorities. He made it as far as the airlock before the headache started." " she repeated