bar fight

♫ Loud, symphonic bass rolled through Cloud 9000, deep enough that Lew felt each beat in his ribs. Ethereal notes drifted above it, rising and falling with the pulse of green light sweeping across the dance floor. Bodies moved in flashes—silhouettes one moment, sharply illuminated the next...

C O V E W A Y The saloon was one of three bars in the largest of a handful of settlements scattered across the planet. There wasn't much to say about the world. A few mining outposts and humans proving they could cling to any rock with gravity and an atmosphere. It was, however, a good...