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Chapter 1

Quinn

Aliens have a bit of a proble

The Taneyelans borrowed the children of Taneyemm The Martians helped the children of Earth

And me?

I took a ship

Stealing isn’t our fault, really It’s part of e are It’s part of what makes us the lovable, wonderful creatures that have fascinated humans for millennia

If only the rest of the galaxy saw things the same way I do

As it is, they don’t In fact, taking ships, even from assholes who deserve it, is completely frowned upon I’m not keen on prison, which means my only choice is to run

So I run

I leave Sapphira I leave et to see the world I expect I’ll get to explore the planets that surround my own I expect all have all sorts of wonderful adventures, but I don’t

I don’t because the interstellar police aretheir stolen vessel

So I run faster, farther

I run harder

And that’s how I end up hiding out on Dreagle: the darkest, nastiest, most terrible place in the damn universe

Dreagle: where anything goes as long as it’s done in secret

Dreagle isn’t the type of place you’d take your mother on vacation It’s not even the type of place you’d send your worst enemy on vacation

Or to be punished

Or to die

It’s that bad

Yet it’s here that I find s It’s here I findlike soe human detective

I’m not