Chapter 50: Let’s Go
Derek was elbow-deep in a power conduit, skin of his arms shifted into the non-conductive scales of the Void Dragon just in case the damage to the starship wound up sending a current through there, even though this section wasn’t meant to be live, when his phone rang, with the ringtone he’d assigned to Mimi.
With a sigh, he withdrew his hands and picked up.
“Hey, I just had to let your older brother in through the airlock. Derek, can you come talk to him while I handle the reactor?”
“Yeah, sure.”
Derek quickly made his way over there, and the first question was “Why didn’t you just come through the hull to me?”
“Didn’t want to startle you,” Isaac said. “Are you alright? I know you said so when I called earlier …”
“Nah, we’re fine,” Derek shrugged. “I mean, ship’s beat to hell, but we’re a small crew, this is pretty much an ‘either we all survive, or we all die’ kind of situation.”
Isaac sighed. “But you’re fine. Do you need anything? Now, later, long term …”
“A fixed ship, but we’re working on that.”