[Primus] Nobody stops me as I leap out the window, spiraling down from the tall tower until I find the window of the hallway leading to the Technician’s lab. It is a clear day, the sky is blue, and the sea is the perfect shade of teal, the surface as glassy as a mirror and calm. As the wind picks up the edges of my wings, I see the sail of a tall ship as it heads down the wide, deep river. Perfect weather to get my family to safety. Kora and Ursa are busy in the corner pulling Orion's stabilization pod from an interconnected mess of wires when I swoop through the back window. Ursa looks up briefly as my foot touches the ground, but then immediately returns to her job, slowly removing Kora’s two surviving eggs from the incubator and placing them in metal cases with long straps. “Good, you’re back,” Kora pulls one last cable, and the viewing window to the pod goes black, casting Orion’s face in deep shadow. “Hurry, the ship is readying to set sail. We need to be gone before sunset t
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