Naka can use her mind to destroy a world, or she can save it. When nothing seems right, she calls the moon.

Naka was adrift with no means to focus, but accidentally starting a tremor in her hometown lets everyone know what she is and sentences her to confinement. The Citadel sends a representative to take her away, but the information that he is given will make sure that she finds no friends off Resicor.

Her life is no longer her own, but her talent begs to be used, and on the planet of Piq, she finds something very wrong. The empty world should not be empty. Its mind has been stolen and lodged in the moon. In his efforts to escape, the living mind of the planet has almost ripped his old body apart. With skills she didn’t know she had, Naka steps in to carry one mind back to its home. She hopes she will survive the process.

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The man was silent. She didn’t even know what he was. His handling of the shuttle was no-nonsense, and she waited until her body felt oddly detached from her mind before she asked, “Where are we going?”

“Sector Guard Base, Teklan. Your suit needs some work.” The disapproval in his tone was unmistakable.

She blushed as she ran her hands over her slick, silvery suit. It had taken this form on its own. She had no say in the matter. Her torso was completely covered, but her legs were dressed in small swirls and jags of fabric.

“I didn’t have a choice. They bonded it to my skin.”

He paused slightly, his face softening briefly before he nodded his head with a jerk.

Naka whispered, “What are they going to do to me?”

“I don’t know. I was given this assignment at the last minute. I do not normally pick up felons.” The low disgust in his tone made her flinch.

“Felon?” She was shocked. “I rattled some dishes. It was just a small earthquake, I swear. No one was hurt.” She bit her lip and stared out at the moons as they increased their speed toward the unknown blackness of space.

“Your file says otherwise, mistress. There are scanners who could tell if you are speaking the truth, but I am not one of them.” He frowned. It seemed his natural facial state was to have that gorgeous mouth down at the corners.

“Can I read my file? I will need something to do while you are busy glaring at me.” She had heard from others in the dome that the guard falsified their actions to build public opinion against them. Naka had not had confirmation until now, but this did seem to be the likely source for his hostility.

“I don’t see the harm.”

He punched a few codes into a terminal, and the ship popped a screen in front of her with a series of documents with her name as the header.

She started with the arrest report. It was horrible. According to the data in front of her, she had wiped out a village and caused a tsunami that wrecked three coastlines. “I didn’t do that. There was no damage.”

“The official reports differ.”

There was no sympathy on his side, so she continued to read. Her medical files were there, including her lack of sexual activity. It was bizarre to see something so intimate displayed on a document available for anyone to read.

Her parents’ death was outlined, as well as the extensive investigation that followed the two-vehicle accident that shattered her life. After she had been arrested, they returned to the scene to look for signs of seismic activity, but they didn’t find any. That did not stop them from speculating that she had a hand in her parents’ accident years earlier.