The Kestrel had one working coffee machine, four crew and a debt to the Ceres Salvage Authority that grew faster than any of them could pay it. So when the job board posted a derelict research station in the outer drift, copper wiring intact, Ofelia Reyes took it before the captain was even awake.
“You didn’t ask,” Captain Dace said at breakfast. “You were asleep,” Ofelia said. “And we’re out of coffee filters.” That settled it. On the Kestrel most things were settled by what they were out of.
This is as far as the free sample goes — the rest of Drift Protocol is waiting for you.
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