DEEP VOID, DARK BLOOD

Previously

…He knew the fight wasn’t over. Thorne would retaliate. The Network, whatever its true scope, would not surrender easily. But he had the truth, and he had a chance to expose it. He looked down at Aris, her breathing still shallow but steady. He had come here to hunt a monster, but he had found a war. And he was ready to fight it. The void was deep, and the blood it held was dark, but for the first time in a long time, Bodyguard felt a flicker of something other than despair. He felt a purpose. He would carry Aris’s burden, and the weight of all the fallen, into the light. The Network’s fall had begun.