For three years they called me a freak—and I stayed silent—until they touched my little sister in front of everyone, and the truth I buried finally came out and changed everything.

pulling it upward into the low cloud cover to avoid the debris field. Operators on the bridge were thrown into disarray, their night-vision systems overwhelmed by the white-hot glare of the burning wreck. In the smoke and secondary blasts, both Horizon units and the remaining forces broke formation, their attention consumed by the collapsing data continue reading …