The Captain (The Last Horizon, #1)

by Will Wight

“It’s better to live for nothing than die for something.”

While the whole ship was an ostentatious display of wealth, this was the kind of magic I appreciated. It was purely aesthetic, with no point other than to look impressive. Magic should be magical.

As the Subspace distortion resolved into a hulking beast of metal and flesh, large enough to bite the colony in two, I drew my Lightcaster and shot. The plasma bolt pinged harmlessly off one of the Behemoth’s city-sized armored plates. There was no chance it noticed. “Got him,” I muttered.

“Better to die for something,” he said, “than to live for—” I whipped out my wand and blasted him. “Shut up!”