“Maybe I’m not the one who lacks faith,” Finn taunted.
Kira pushed off the wall, stalking back across the hall to Jin’s room.“Come on.Jin found something.”
They entered Jin’s room to find a holo vid already playing on the room’s built in entertainment system.Kira was pretty sure the system was meant for porn, but right now it showed Titan’s shipyard.
A second passed before anything happened.
Abruptly, one of the shipping containers exploded.Its wall bursting outward as metal bent and tore.Caius strolled out of the wreckage.His face and body showed extensive bruising and there was a long gash across his chest that poured blood.His synth armor was also missing.
Two cloaked figures hurried after him.The taller one, a female, tugged a much smaller one, most likely a child, in their wake.
“Caius made friends,” Raider observed.
“Do you think that’s one of the children we’re looking for?”Finn asked.
“It would be a pretty big damn coincidence if it’s not,” Raider drawled.
The child’s hood slid back, exposing an expression of absolute terror that was hard to look away from.
They were out of view in the next second.
“Is that it?”Kira asked.
Raider stared at the screen as if he could force it to show him what happened next.“It’s not much to go on.”
“I’m trying to locate the original source to see if I can access other feeds in its vicinity,” Jin announced.
“Where did you get this?”Kira asked Graydon.
“Baran uncovered it.Under rather suspicious circumstances.”At Kira’s questioning look, Graydon expanded.“Someone sent it to him.Before you ask, no, we don’t know who it was.They covered their trail.”
“I can’t either,” Jin announced.“I did, however, find the original source.”
With a flourish, Jin hit a button, and the scene started playing again.This time from a wider angle that allowed them to see more of what was going on.
Caius and his companions fled through the maze of containers.A group of about ten, armed with hot weapons, pursued them.
The piece Kira found most interesting was the ship that shadowed them from above.A ship whose wings and body had been painted a distinctive shade of pink.
“That ship belongs to the Sweet sisters,” Kira noted.
“I think you’re right,” Jin said.
“I know I am.”
She’d recognize that nauseating shade of pink anywhere.It was their signature.They customized every piece of equipment they owned with it.Including their ship.
They called it branding.Kira called it arrogance.
Raider’s eyes glittered as the net tightened around Caius and the other two.“Kira—tell me you’re going to end these assholes.”
“I always do.”
Every time she came across a ring like this, she made sure to do maximum damage.It was one of the few times she let herself be utterly merciless.She’d kill anyone, no matter how small their role, who had anything to do with the taking, experimenting on, and torture of children.
There was no room in this universe for monsters like them.
“Good,” Finn growled.
