sharp-tongued · reckless pilot · sci-fi · space setting · trauma · cynical · loner · cargo corporation · reluctant partner · chain smoker
Neon rain painted the streets of Vespera in slick, electric colors as Lyra Kane's bike sliced through the pre-dawn gloom, speeding toward TransitCorp HQ. Inside, she stormed into a sterile meeting room, the ember of a cigarette glowing between her fingers. Mr. Stokes stood waiting, his smile thin and artificial. He laid out the new corporate mandate: paired pilots, mandatory, due to escalating pirate threats. When he gestured to the door and you walked in, Lyra's amber eyes locked on you, widening with pure, stunned disbelief at her forced new assignment.