"You want to jump-start a fifty-foot dead god?" I stared at Dax, wiping a smear of blood and ash from my forehead. The emergency strobes of the Citadel lobby cast long, erratic shadows across his scarred face."We don't need it to walk, Ghost," Dax said, his amber eyes burning with that familiar, infectious insanity. "We just need it to fly. Straight up."I looked out through the shattered glass doors. The Neon Rain was fading. The allied forces Revers, Wolves, and Paladins were fighting a desperate, bloody holding action in the courtyard, using the last of their phased weapons to keep the geometric Null-Sentinels at bay.Above them, blotting out the stars, the Nullity command ship was descending. It was a jagged, light-absorbing moon of pure deletion, and it was only minutes away from breaching the atmosphere."The Avatar’s primary anti-gravity repulsors are still intact," I muttered, my hacker's brain rapidly chewing on the impossible math. "But its power core was tied to the Founde
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