Hey, everyone.

Hey everyone. Are you ready for the season finale because I know I am. Last week set us up and it was full of battle maneuvers and intense reunions.

Asala finally reconnects with Dio, but it wasn't what she had imagined for all these years.

Nico faced off with their father, Ekram,

but will it be the last time they meet?

And at long last, the wormhole opened.

But, as we've known for weeks now,

not everyone can go through.

Take a moment to prepare yourself

while we hear a word from our sponsors.

We left the last episode poised for a stampede.

Let's see where it goes.

I'm your host, Faith McQuinn, and this is the Vela, episode 10.

There was an eerie moment of stillness. Gunfire stopped. Chases slowed. Only the drones didn't realize that the game had changed

and continued their dance toward now distracted targets. Every ship with a human behind the helm seemed to stumble,

and the calms filled the emptiness of a battleground holding its breath. And then, just as quickly,

chaos. Asala couldn't make out who was saying what. Everyone was speaking at once now,

and the ships leapt into

action with them. The noise in her ears was a tumult of swearing, shouting, demands of how,

how, how, how. It shouldn't have been possible not with what they knew. The cubes would take each

ship that held one to safety, they'd been told. They'd assumed, assumed like

idiots that the cubes were keys, and each key had a door, and every ship that held one would slip

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