Chapter 89

That night as I lay in Mase's arms, the plan that had taken root inside my head before we'd landed on Orin blossomed. I needed to get word to Pop, Moon Dragon, and the rest of the humans about the Saelis's plan to wipe out the rest of us, but to do that, I needed a Mind-I. Since I didn't have one, we needed to go back through the rings to Mayvel. Once we were through the rings, I could just call them on my dinky phone.

But this meant we needed to get back through the rings that had sent us to deep space. The Ringers could refuse us - even if we said please - especially since Mase had turned his back on humanity from inside this ship, the same one they'd tried to erase from existence by renaming it the Vicious. Maybe they would let us through no problem to spill all their scandalous secrets, though given everything they did to cover up their slaughter of half an alien race to power their rings, I doubted it.