The Viridian Shipping Company

A companion novella to Living Wasteland, taking place several hundred years after the first book.Sephiriel Viridi is a man of little resources and even less time. Set adrift from his home of Heavestone with only a run-down spaceship and a meager inheritance, he has spent the last few years of his life singlehandedly running an intergalactic shipping company. One of, if not the, fastest in the Orchidia System. Self-isolating to protect himself from the dangers of post-Miralay life, he maintains a fragile sort of balance in the stars. Enough money to get by, enough sights to see to last him more than his lifetime.But the balance starts to unravel when his ship gets hijacked by Lazarus, one of the most fearsome assassins in the Orchidia System.The price for Seffie's life?The successful delivery of a package far more dangerous than any other he's carried.