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Aki had been alone for centuries awaiting the next soul. The next soul to torture. The next soul to punish. She was chaos in the darkness, the mist before Death. But the next soul comes in the form of a charming devil, who sees past the misery and darkness she exudes. But he is to suffer, and that cannot be changed.

Corporal Dia Zephyr assumed it was just another drill, no more than a Navy tradition, a rite of passage for the recruits. She expected a spacewalk, maybe a shooting game inside an asteroid field, skimming along the Collective's border before turning back to the Empire's space. After all, this was what they knew, what everyone expected. But that's not what happened. Highest ranks: [27 in #Science Fiction - 25 in #Horror 10-01-2018]