Chapters tagged debt

by oldtoad78

Chapter 2

The GSN Marlin limped through the void, its single engine thrumming a low, uneven pulse that shivered through the deck plates under Darius Belmont’s boots. The air inside the salvage ship hung heavy with the bite of oil and recycled damp, a smell so woven into the steel it might...

by oldtoad78

Chapter 3

The dock’s cold air bit through Darius Belmont’s jacket, Henderson Station’s mid-tier sprawl humming around him like a beast too tired to die. The Global Salvage Network official—a pudgy prick with a tablet and a face like curdled milk—shoved the signed manifest into his hands an...

by oldtoad78

Chapter 2

 The dive bar festered in a grimy corner of the station’s lower docks, a hollow of rusting steel and sour air, thick with the reek of cheap synth-ale and unwashed bodies. The hum of failing air recyclers buzzed through the walls, a restless dr...