Echoes of Cael Morrow
Reece Calder wakes to find the cargo pilot in the next berth dead, the manifest wrong, and a Patrol lockdown descending on the station. The shipment he was paid to forget has vanished, and Patrol Captain Vex is already sealing blast doors to bury every loose end inside. Reece has two choices: run, or become the next body the refinery deck sweeps into the manifolds. He runs, with Mira Voss, a courier who insists her sealed container was never meant to be opened, and with the ghost of Liora Cael bleeding through abandoned comms, warning of something buried beneath the rust. Every faction on Cael Morrow wants the cargo. Corporate Auditors want the secret quietly audited. Raider Captain Thess wants blood for a convoy she lost. The Morrow Walkers want their scout back. As the station's atmosphere thins and allies turn into executioners, Reece discovers the signal Mira carries is not currency or contraband, it is a choice that will decide who survives the silence. Trust the wrong voice, and the echo becomes a tomb. Trust the right one, and the dead may finally speak.