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The whole vessel shuddered.
"Steady, Mateo," Angel said, though sweat pricked at her forehead. She adjusted the thrust vector, nudging the Rusty Vein into a slow rotation. Below them, the surface of the asteroid "Vesper-9" churned. It wasn't rock; it was a shifting sea of metallic sand, constantly moving like water.
Angel looked at the course plotted on the screen. It was a suicide run—deep space, no refueling stations, no rescue. But she looked back at the monitor showing the airlock, at the sleek, impossible pod they had dredged up from the dark. angel youngs dred
And the Youngs? That’s still there. She carries it all. Not lightly. But forward.
"It's not radiation," Angel murmured. She pressed her palm against the side.
"I've got a bite," Angel said, her eyes locked on the tension meter. The needle spiked. "It’s heavy. Too heavy for ore." Angel Young has shared some of her hair
"Pull it up!" Mateo urged. "We’re losing altitude!"
Angel rushed back to the bridge. The Rusty Vein was turning, its nose pointing away from the safety of the shipping lanes, aiming toward the dark, empty space between the stars.
Behind her, the dredge—affectionately named "Old Bess" by the crew but officially designated a Class-C Excavator—groaned. It was a monstrous machine of grinding gears and magnetic claws, designed to sift through the asteroid belts of the Kepler sector. But Angel wasn’t looking for iron or ice. She was hunting for "Star-Glass"—the iridescent residue left behind by ancient solar flares. It was worth a fortune planetside, enough to pay off the ship's debt and maybe get her brother out of the mines. Below them, the surface of the asteroid "Vesper-9" churned
The air in the Dredge was always thick, tasting of copper and recycled oxygen, but Angel Youngs barely noticed it anymore. She stood at the helm of the Rusty Vein , her knuckles white against the control yoke, watching the pressure gauges tremble.
"Buckle up, Mateo." Angel sat back in the captain’s chair, a strange calm settling over her. She disengaged the safety protocols, letting the alien pod's navigation take the wheel. "We aren't miners anymore."
"I can't stop it," Mateo yelled, his fingers flying across the keyboard. "The ship's AI just accepted an external directive."
She pushed the lever forward. On the external monitors, a massive, rusted mechanical arm extended from the belly of the ship. It plunged into the silver sands of Vesper-9, kicking up clouds of dust that shimmered in the ship's floodlights.