Maisie holds the latest report over the candle. The flame consumes the Star Streak’s position, the captain’s condition, and every secret she once promised to transmit.
Maisie
No more names. No more courses. Nothing that leads them to him.
She closes the coded ledger without writing a single mark. Its imperial cipher waits beneath her palm, precise and patient, while the ship’s living vibration trembles through the walls.
Footsteps approach her cabin. Maisie’s hand leaves the ledger and hovers near the candle, caught between destroying the evidence and preserving the last proof of who she used to be.
Maisie
Captain?
The door remains closed between them. Maisie stares at the untouched pages, then toward the latch, her duty and her devotion waiting on opposite sides of the same breath.
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“"Enter" Maisie says. The captain walks in and asks how she is doing. She is burning a piece of paper. A coded message that she no longer desires to send. She has fallen in love with the man she was sent to spy on. Much like Julia stated earlier, the women of the ship have become like family to her. "I am just fine, Captain." she responds. She has made the firm decision to no longer spy for the empire. Today. She is a member of the Star Streak.”
Kael Umal
How are you doing, Maisie?
Maisie feeds the coded message to the candle and watches its final fragments curl into ash.
Maisie
I am just fine, Captain. I stopped sending reports today. The Empire sent me to spy on you, but you and this crew are my family now. I am a member of the Star Streak.
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