I remember a young woman with blond hair and purple glasses working the register while a green-haired woman prepped tacos in the truck’s tight kitchen. No Geekerella in sight. “Huh.”

Milo takes out two tacos for me and shoves the rest into his Spider-Man backpack. “All right. We got blankets. We got water. We got food. Got my eye mask,” he adds, pulling a Carmindor-themed eye mask out of his back pocket and putting it on. The eye pads sit on his forehead, making him look as though he has a pair of Darien’s dreamy peepers above his real ones. “Anything else we need?”

“What was the news you guys were talking about?” I ask.

Milo and Bran shoot each other the same unreadable look. “Didn’t you see Bran’s text?”

“No, I was carrying tacos and coffee, remember? What news?”

Quickly, Bran takes out his phone and shows me a tweet with a photo. A grin spreads across his lips and he says, “Monster, someone’s leaking the Starfield script—and rumor is, it’s real.”

Jess

WITH AN EXASPERATED SIGH, I FALL back onto the bed, holding my phone and scrolling through the @s and RTs. The script has to be fake, but the internet is going insane. Again. And with more comments come more trolls and more fanboys bemoaning my existence. The first time the sequel script “leaked,” earlier this year, it turned out to be a reject from the first movie. I got sent hateful comments for surviving at the end of the film. The three times after that they’ve just been fakes.

Honestly, though? I’d kill for one of them to be real just so Diana can finally confirm whether or not I’m in the damn thing.

@Fantasticwho

SOMEONE IS LEAKING THE SECOND STARFIELD SCRIPT

@sayjess @notthatdarien @calvinrolfe4real @dudebroamon

@Scifibytespodcast

A scene of the sequel script leaked!!! I AM SHOOK.

@starfieldscript337

EXCLUSIVE: photo of a page from the long-awaited sequel!

CARMINDOR fills the doorway, refusing to let the NOXIAN GENERAL pass in the hallway. The tired GENERAL gives him a dangerous look.

NOXIAN GENERAL

Your Highness, your treaty with us is already thin.

CARMINDOR

The Black Nebula - what’s happening to it?

The NOXIAN GENERAL draws herself up to full height. She is unafraid of her answer.

NOXIAN GENERAL

It has opened again, unsurprisingly .

Looks like your princess didn’t sacrifice enough.

Now get out of my way.

CARMINDOR’s mood darkens. He stands rigid in the doorway, like a sentinel. Just out of the NOXIAN GENERAL’s line of sight come two Federation officers. They have their hands on their pistols, ready to draw.

The NOXIAL GENERAL notices them and she whirls back to CARMINDOR angrily.

NOXIAN GENERAL

You know this is war.

CARMINDOR

(to the Federation Officers)

Arrest her.

For a moment, it seems like CARMINDOR won’t let her pass, but then he steps aside and the General leaves.

Ugh, people.