Sophie and Mark 9
9. Succubus We were two weeks out of cryo when we picked up the distress signal. We were on a routine scavenge run, a parsec out, and MSTRUS had woken us for the final approach. < … please *kzt* save us… > “Fuck ’em.” Garret had received news that his daughter had gotten sick while we were on ice. “We don’t have the time OR the fuel to waste on a bunch of corpses.” ...