“Good.” I focused back on Declan. He leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms as he waited, looking ready to take whatever punch I was going to throw his way.

I was going to manipulate him, and maybe I’d feel bad about that later, but if it meant Audrey had a chance to live, especially after everything she’d done for me, then I’d worry about that later. “I did everything you asked of me in that courtroom. I survived, but it was hard. I know that when all of this is done, I will forever have nightmares about my time on Abaddon. I hear my skin sizzling as I fall asleep every night. I smell sulfur as I wake. It was hard, but I did it. And now I need you to do something for me.”

He dropped his arms to his sides. “What do you want me to do?”

“Your ship is still SpaceTech, and you haven’t technically defected yet, right?”

“Yes.”

“Good. Lorne is going to drop me off on the surface of the moon, I’ll make a very big distraction, and in the chaos, you need to land on Abaddon and get my friends.”

Declan shook his head slowly. “This is a bad—”

“You don’t get to say no.” I was pissed at him, and I was going to use that to fuel what I had to do next. “You grab Ahiga, Audrey, Tyler, Santiago, and anyone else who Ahiga thinks should come. No one stays behind who could be killed because of me. You get them out of there, then sound the evacuation alarm.”

“What kind of distraction are you going to make?” Lorne asked.

This was the part that was bad. I’d barely survived the moon the first time around, and I was about to tell them I wanted to go back for more. What they couldn’t know was how dangerous this could be for me. Otherwise, they’d never let me go.

I took a moment and tried to muster up all the confidence I had left. “I know where all the volatile crystals are. The ones I hit are still active. They’ll be active for hours yet. All I need to do is hit them one more time, and then find a crystal big enough to set off all the others, and I think I know the one. I’m going to blow up the moon from the inside, and if we’re lucky it’ll smash into Abaddon and take the base with it.”

My father shook his head. “I don’t know Amihanna. This sounds—”

“We’ll stay cloaked, but it won’t take a genius for SpaceTech to figure out what happened. And if anything goes wrong—”

Lorne laughed in shock. “Gods above. You’re mad.”