A Sky of Her Own

In a galaxy fractured by war, where those born without soma are considered fragile and those without kennar have no anchor, ten-year-old Leru survived the unthinkable.

Her refugee vessel never made it to safety. It became something worse—a rotting kingdom of violence and madness. To stop it from reaching another world, Leru took control. Six hundred and thirty-one lives later, only she remained.

Now summoned before the High Command and the Rjg, she expects judgment. Instead, she is sentenced to service aboard the most infamous vessel in known space—the ship of Falaha, a technogod in her own right.

Haunted but unbroken, Leru must learn what it means to belong, to heal, and to claim the one thing she never had: a sky of her own.

This is a short story of Leru’s harrowing experience on an escape vessel that was briefly touched in Falaha’s Journey series.