Vara closed the log. In her salvage bag, she tucked a toy rabbit from Set 7. The registry wouldn’t miss one set.
Set 9 was the bridge. A single terminal flickered on residual charge. Vara cracked the log: LS Little Pearl -14 sets-.64
The Little Pearl wasn’t a ship, not anymore. She was a salvage claim, logged as LS Little Pearl -14 sets-.64 in the orbital registry: fourteen disjointed structure sets pulled from the wreck of a mid-bulk starliner, point-six-four of her original mass coefficient still readable. Vara closed the log
