Lucas's smile now was akin to the one from back when they had decided to visit mafias and gangs around the world to get them to help finance their endeavors. That was the smile for when he could play without any weight on his mind. Even when he had fought in the Path outside of Earth a few years ago, there had been the shadow of Christina's death in his smile.
Looking at him, a faint, barely perceptible smile flashed past Estrella's lips like an illusion.
The Adventurer stabilized in the void after getting out of the ocean of energy. There was nothing around, and with the receivers turned off, there was no way for them to be found, unless by chance, or very deliberately.
After one last check of the results from the sensors and after pushing the spaceship's mainframe to a sufficiently high alert level to compensate for the absence of everyone from the bridge, Lucas stood up. He turned to Estrella with a smile, and she understood him without words.
