Welcome to stories from Among the Stars. You're listening to The Last Watch by J.S. Dewas.

Chapter 14.

Kevlon leaned forward so far he almost slid off the edge of his seat.

He squinted at the screen, his mind warring with the reality of the approaching ship.

Dutger vessels tended to be warped, surreal versions. ship. a sleek rianger cargo ship in one of their brutish grips

and bashed it into a rock,

then proceeded to repair it with random salvaged debris

in the most haphazard way possible.

Like a child purling apart his toys in glau in the most haphazard way possible.

Like a child pulling apart his toys and gluing them back together to create something new,

yet unmistakably grotesque.

Kavalon would take the mindless clone version of drudgers his nefarious grandfather had conjured up any day to the barbaric version that barreled toward them now.

Jackin shook his head.

That device we saw in the airlock.

They must have seen the station was abandoned and bugged the doors.

Cavalon ground his teeth.

It was typical and not surprising. At the end of the Resurgence War, the remaining

Viator Allied Dredger Forces had fled to the outer core and beyond, though some had settled

in remote systems and kept to themselves, others traveled

in warring bands, looting and pillaging their way around the galaxy.

Not that those were new activities for drudgers. They'd acted as the resident

pirates of the SC since their inception at the hands of Viator geneticists a

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