Chapter 29: Rescue the child

"We do not need - "

"Right now," she screamed in his face. It was Ter all over again. She didn't care if they didn't understand about families. No one would leave a child behind on her watch, ever again.

"We do not need a small human who cannot contribute to the function of the ship."

She jumped up, and the bench rocked. "I don't give a shit. You do not separate a mother from her child. Get her back here right now," she screamed over the cluttering sound of the rocking bench. "You better do it, or we will both scream and scream until you do."

The other woman opened her mouth and screamed. Aurora joined her for good measure. This might be childish, but she'd do anything to get the woman back with her child.

"Stop doing that," Balthazar bellowed.

She got on her toes and screamed in his face. If he didn't agree to take the woman to her child or bring Tansyn here, Aurora would go on a hunger strike until he listened.