Pining For Kim -tail-blazer- -

A pale blue ion streak, thinner than a thread of spun glass, arcing across the dark. Kim’s signature. The Tail-Blazer. Every pilot in the Scatterhaul Fleet flew by the book—safe trajectories, mapped routes, deference to the gravity wells. But Kim? Kim flew through them. She’d loop a comet’s corona for fun, skim a black hole’s accretion disc like a skipping stone, and leave behind that impossible, shimmering tail: a braid of rogue particles and audacity.

Lina hadn’t been complaining. She’d been calculating . Quietly. Obsessively. The way she did everything. But Kim had heard anyway—because Kim listened to the hum of the ship the way priests listen for scripture. Pining For Kim -Tail-Blazer-

A private flare. A wave made of plasma.