"Maybe I did," she replied, tucking the drive away where its secrets would find careful hands. "But I pulled my wings back in time."
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"I thought you’d have learned by now," he said. "Icarus." "Maybe I did," she replied, tucking the drive
"Extraction window’s closing. Get the data and get out." "Maybe I did
The alarms did not sound. Instead, far away, something else tore the quiet—a low keening, a vibration in the air like distant thunder. Chantal paused. Her skin prickled with instinct; her eyes rose to the sky where a smear of metal glinted on the horizon. A transport—no, a battlecruiser—drifted overhead, its shadow passing like a promise.