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THE beginning of the end started with the arrival of the Rebel fleet.
Kit hadn't seen it, couldn't see anything beyond the blue barrier of Scarif's empty sky. She had no idea they'd come at all until she heard Bodhi clambering through the shuttle's metal halls, shouting her name like a curse, over and over until she had no choice but to listen.
The younger Rebel turned, her dark eyes finding the pilot a second before he reached her, distracted for a moment from the five soldiers she was meant to be addressing. "What is it?" She asked, already running through one thousand possibilities in her mind until the former Imperial's words stopped her short.
"The Rebel fleet are here," he panted, eyes so wide she was scared they'd fall straight out of his skull. He was pale, paler than she'd ever seen him, and without realising it she knew then what waited for them all. "They've engaged the Imperials outside the gate. The whole base is in lock down."
Kit felt a thousand emotions flood through her at once — confusion, elation, pride, fear — too fast for her to latch onto. But one question sat on the end of her tongue, burning her from the inside out. "The gate?" She asked, and somehow knew Bodhi understood. He shook his head, and that was answer enough for her. The gate was closed.
She felt her heart rate pick up, her mind racing, trying to come up with a way out. If they somehow managed to get the plans, and if by some miracle they made it out of the Citadel alive, then there was still no way off of the planet. And if there was no way off of the planet, then the plans weren't going beyond Scarif's atmosphere. For them, Scarif was no better than a planet-sized tomb. She didn't realised she'd voiced her thoughts out loud until it was too late, "We're trapped."
"So what do we do?" The new voice belonged to Tonc, one of the Rebel's who had stayed, but even his voice betrayed the crushing fear that pressed down on them all.
