In Other Worlds

– The contraflow was there, and he swooped back toward Evoe. He swung around the obstructing skyles in time to see the two pirates carrying her limp body away.

He'd lost his gun in the fall, but that's not why he hung back. Emerging from the Cloudriver was the black chevron of a jumpship. He watched helplessly as they boarded and the jumpship slinked back 'into the colossal clouds.

Carl raged. His blood sang with despair, and he howled at the Cloudriver, dashing in and out of its blankness hoping to be taken by the pirates and joined again, at least in fate, with his Evoe.