His Unwanted Wife Returned as a Boss
It was labeled in a child's messy handwriting: 1977 - For the Long Journey.
Hope picked it up, her heart hammering. As she did, she looked toward the Shadow Peaks. The crystalline reflection was gone. The mountain was just rock again.
But then, her terminal chirped. It wasn't a message from the Moon, or the Oort Cloud, or the Deep.
It was a GPS Coordinate.
The location was not on Earth. It wasn't even in this galaxy. The coordinates pointed to a void in space where nothing should exist.
And beneath the coordinates, a single line of text appeared, typed in the cold, precise font of the Grand Auditor: