Her name was at the top of the list, which was either unsurprising or deeply annoying and Max had decided it was both.
He sat in the upper canopy of Vorga's forest with three moons throwing contradictory shadows across everything and the floating islands drifting their patient orbits above him and he looked at the Pathfinder's Treasure Hunt tracker and he looked at the name in first position and he gave himself exactly two seconds with it.
Raze.
The timestamp beside her name indicated she had been on the floating islands for four days. Four days of positioning, four days of proximity advantage, four days of whatever operational preparation she had been running up there while he had been ten days underground having what he was privately willing to describe as one of the most eventful cave experiences in recorded history.
