“To Catch the Lightning” by Royce Day (part 2 of 2)

Today’s story is Part Two of "To Catch the Lightning" by Royce Day, which will soon be available in Armoured Fox Press' upcoming Swordmasters anthology, edited by Tarl Hoch Previously in Part One, Swordmaster Becca Blacksailor arrived in the Gerwart port of Klippenhaven, along with her lieutenant, Feyd, on a mission to escort the defecting gerwart scientist, Scholar Mond-Gaffer, and the prototype of his mysterious invention, aboard a waiting Mother Country freighter. But delays and a run in with Gerwart's State Security has ended with Feyd's death, and leaves Becca as the sole protector of the scientist and the freighter's crew.... Read for you by Khaki, your faithful fireside companion.