The battle was over, but the war was far from finished. I exhaled a long, slow breath, looking around the wreckage that used to be the beautiful pride of the Go. Smoke curled into the night sky, and it's blending with the stars like it's ink spread out through the water. My shoes crunched over shattered debris as I moved through the place where the battlefield had happened earlier. Some of the Orion mercenaries are still unconscious; that is why the Wispy brothers' men were having difficulty loading them into the vehicle. Well, the tiny bottle I held, the mere placebo, a bluff that is so effective it might as well have been divine intervention, had done its job. I tucked it back into my pocket and turned to Cannon, who stood atop the wreckage like some victorious war god, stretching his arms as if he had just finished a warm-up routine. Honestly, I can't stop but glare at him.