C4 4

Niobe, Battleship Karter, Sector 437

I really hadn’t meant to spring it on him like that.

I’m your mate.

Not exactly me at my most brilliant. I hadn’t even told him my name.

But then again, I had transported into the middle of a Hive Integration base—an unknown Integration Base that was supposed to be one of ours—and been forced to fight for my life, and his, as soon as I’d had time to blink