The docking clamps on her hull extended. She had one chance.
Talia’s heart hammered against her ribs as she strapped into the Skipper . The ship groaned, as if sensing its own inadequacy. She punched the throttle, and the familiar, terrifying lurch threw her back. The stars stretched into needles of light. the rookie talia
She leaned back in her cracked cockpit, wiping a trickle of blood from her lip where she’d bitten it. “I stopped trying to fly, sir. I just… listened.” The docking clamps on her hull extended
