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waist as his tongue slips into my mouth.
    It feels like a roaring bonfire has been lit inside me, and I lose all sense of time and place. I’m not on New Rotterdam, and I’m not being hunted by the peacekeepers – ’m just next to Kronos. Kissing him. We’re nowhere and everywhere, and he’s going to keep me safe no matter what happens.
    And then there’s a beep.
    We ignore it, but Kronos kisses me faster and with more and more hunger. He pulls his tablet out as I grip tightly to him, but Delphie’s voice breaks us apart.
    “I don’t know who he is!” her voice shouts over the tablet.
    “You’re both standing next to him in this video,” a stranger’s voice says.
    And then I hear Ramu shouting, I hear Kronos’s threat about grinding our bones to dust, and I hear Delphie hiss.
    “Shit,” Kronos says. “They have that broadcast. They have photos of the whole crew, and they’re looking for me.”
    “We were mercs,” Ramu says. “He paid us already, and we parted ways.”
    “Where’s your ship then?” the voice asks.
    “There are only three of them!” Ramu’s voice shouts. “One biosuit and three Seraphi – ”
    “Hey! Stop broadcast – ”
    The voices cut off.
    Kronos bites his lip, a panicked expression filling his face. He grabs me by the shoulders.
    “Minna, I will go up there alone. It will be three on three. We have a good chance.”
    I don’t hear his voice, but Jerky is itching to act. He knows we can do it.
    “No,” I say. “We go up together.”
    “Minna,” he says. “If I fight and lose, they won’t hurt you , but if you fight, they might – ”
    “I want to fight. And I want to save Delphie.”
    “What about Ramu?”
    “Him too, I guess.”
    “All right,” Kronos says. “Let’s go.”
    We reach the elevator, and I say, “You need to pretend you’re holding me hostage.”
    “Oh,” Kronos says. “Yeah, that’s smart. I’ll hold you real tight the whole way up.” He flicks his ears up and down.
    “You’d like that, huh?”
    He grabs me and pulls me into the elevator, and the doors shut.
    It’s a long and tense twenty minutes. I feel an overwhelming urge to kiss him again, especially with those strong arms wrapped tightly around me and my head resting against his wide chest. But if they’re watching us that would completely blow our cover. My adrenaline is surging and there’s nowhere for it to go. Jerky is ready to fight, but I’m scared out of my mind. I acted brave for Kronos, and everything I said was true, but I’m a scientist, not a soldier.
    I feel lighter and lighter as the elevator goes up, and at the end of the ride, we start to float off the ground. Kronos grabs the rail and holds me tightly against him.
    When the doors open, two Seraphim with plasma rifles, one in a teal biosuit, are standing in a semi-circle around the exit. Their ship is floating behind them, as well, threatening even more firepower.
    The one in the biosuit says, “Captain Kronos of the Time’s End, I am Peacekeeper 1271, Malcolm son of Sayid, and I order you to release the hostage.”
    Kronos pulls me tighter against him. “Malcolm son of Sayid? You look like Fallen Seraphim to me. What are you doing as a peacekeeper?”
    “Let her go!” he shouts. “Final warning.”
    “Where is my crew?” Kronos asks.
    “Detained,” Malcolm says. “Now let her go.”
    “Minna,” Kronos whispers. “If you’re going to do something, now’s the time.”
    “Quiet!” Malcolm shouts. “You’ve got nowhere to go, Captain. If you release her, I might just let you and your crew – ”
    Behind Malcolm, an airlock on his ship blasts open. Ramu shoots out like a torpedo, his skull crusher in hand.
    “Detained my ass!” he shouts.
    I see one of the peacekeepers raise his rifle toward Ramu.
    “No!” I shout, and just like that Jerky activates.
    A flurry of orange tendrils explodes out from my biosuit, and faster than I can see it happen, they snatch the two plasma rifles away,