Family Betrayal

[Wolfs Ghost]

He was sitting alone in the rear observation deck of the Suffolk, eyeing Planet New London from afar. While his breathing and body language was calm, his face retained an extremely annoyed expression.

Three hours had passed since the incident on Trafalgar where he failed to protect one of the Berry sisters, and during that same incident, took the life of another. While taking a life is expected of an Armed Forces pilot when your own life is in danger, that wasn't what bothered him.

No... what bothered him was that he failed in keeping his promise to protect someone, and that personally drove a stake through him. On top of that, both he and Arland were too slow at attempting to track down the Liberty Security Force Agent that had taken Evie, by the time Arland's ship was in space... their target was long gone, and space was huge.

"We'll find them again." The phrase had plagued his mind, repeating over and over, for the past three hours. Of course, it was suddenly interrupted by a loud beeping sound.

He broke his gaze from the planet and looked down at the PDA he was holding in his hand, the screen flashed informing him that he had one new message. Tapping the screen with his thumb and pulling the message up he quietly read it aloud to himself, and smiled faintly.

"Good. I'm glad this isn't over with, and now it'll be on my terms." He said gently, opening up a new message and sending it to his wingman.

Arland, meet me in the Hangar bay. No uniform. Bring your weapon. We're going on a field trip.

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