The Surrogate’s Blade
A Syndicate hunter-sub, purpose-built for the trench, climbing to meet the intruder its beacons have been handing down the corridor all night.
“Forty seconds to its scan envelope,” Sarah says. Flat. Pilot-flat.
“When it pings us at this range it reads everything. Hull, bodies, heat. And the source.”
“Then we give it a different source to chase,” Damian says.
He is already moving, as much as anyone moves in here, reaching past Julian to the case strapped against the forger’s chest, and Julian flinches but does not stop him, because they planned this on the surface and I was not in the room.
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