Chapter 172

Avion regained his senses in time to hear Aramus losing his mind. Which really wasn't that uncommon of an occurrence-Who's the mentally defective idiot who didn't close the hatch? Who ate the last bowl of Fruit Loops?-Who wanted to die because Aramus wasn't in a good mood?

Most of the time, Avion tuned him out, or egged him on, depending on his mood. But this time was different because this time Aramus focused his ire on Lilith-and Avion didn't like it at all.

"What do you mean you knew this would happen? You said we'd slingshot out and that our momentum would carry us out of this star system at twice the speed. Which, in retrospect, was ridiculously naive of me to believe."

"It's possible to do. However, that wasn't the plan in this instance. I lied." Starkly announced.

"Lied? Why the fuck would you do that?"

"Because there was a high probability that, if I told you the actual plan, you would have never agreed to it."