Through the Stars, Darkly – Chapter 177

A Space Opera Serial // Why a map held the answer.

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Sweat dripped down her arms as Sarisa looked through the open trapdoor. It had taken her a week to find this place. Dark, deep, damp.

She had thought this a crypt, at first, until she had noticed the barrels. They were empty, of course--some of them cracked open, the ground soiled with the spilled and no…