The Odyssey moved silently through the endless, star-dusted night. Inside, the ship was quiet, but it was a new kind of quiet. It wasn't the heavy, fearful silence from before.
It was a thoughtful quiet, a calm after a storm of difficult emotions. Ryan had spoken with Emma and Zara, and their heartfelt confessions had cleared the air, replacing fear and confusion with a new, shared honesty.
But there was still one conversation left to have.
He found Scarlett on the training deck. It was a large, empty room with padded floors and walls that could show any kind of holographic background.
Right now, it was set to a simple, dark grid. Scarlett was in the center of the room, moving through a series of combat forms with her new Void Weave ability.
One moment she was there, a solid figure of focused power. The next, she would melt into a patch of shadow on the floor, only to reform a dozen feet away, her movements silent and fluid.
