“You’ll go.” Jalen said it like an axe. “We’ll go together.”
“You can refuse,” Jalen said. “You can isolate the node until the surge passes.” true bond ch1 part 5 cloudlet hot
“Do you want it?” Jalen asked.
The sky above the Aeroplex had been a bruise of bruises all evening: violet bruised into bruised indigo, trailing the last heat of day like a wound that refused to close. On the surface of the cloudlet platform, steam rose in slow, nervous fingers from vents built into the walkway. The vents hummed—low, mechanical breaths—while neon veins pulsed through the platform’s translucent rails. Heat clung to clothes and skin as if the air itself remembered the sun and refused to forgive it. “You’ll go