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[[M-Bot]] tells [[Spensa]] her shuttle will take her to the trade vessel ''[[Weights and Measures]]'', they also cover the species within Spensa's flight. M-Bot also tells Spenaa about the [[kitsen]] [[cytonics|shadow walkers]] who came to [[Old Earth]] thousands of years before, but mysteriously stopped coming due to being ostracized among their own people. The shuttle passes a group of people waving signs, led by a [[burl (species)|burl]]. M-Bot searches the local news outlets and finds that they are protesting the use of live destructor fire in the tryout and the [[Superiority]]'s treatment of lesser races as a whole. Spensa's shuttle reaches the last ship on the docks, what she identifies as a troop transport, due to its multiple ports for launching starfighters and the knobs on the sides for gun emplacements. Spensa gets put of her shuttle and is told she will be picked up again at 9000. Spensa is joined by [[Hesho]] and his crew, who informs her that he was unanimously voted down in each measure he brought forth in his people's democratic assembly. A drone flies over to the group, now joined by Morriumur and Vapor, and informs them they will be Flight Fifteen, which Hesho immediately renames [[Flowers of Night's Last Kiss Flight]]. The flight is led down the corridors of the ''Weights and Measures'', and Spensa feels she should peel off from the group and head a certain way. She does, and hears the stars, when a soldier guarding the intersection yells at her and she goes back to where her flight went. They enter a little chamber with half a dozen jumpseats, they strap in, and prepare for launch. Spensa relaxes and listens to the stars, hears the captain's command to prepare for hyperjump, then her mind floods with information, the location of where they're jumping to, a shrill scream, and then the ship enters the [[nowhere]].

[[Spensa]] enters the [[nowhere]], and sees the eyes, but they staring at whatever is screaming and not her. She comes to back in her flight's room on board the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'', and she and her flight leave and head to a dock where their boxy [[starfighter]]s await. She looks out the window to see a polyhedral megastructure the size of a space station, which [[Winzik]] refers to as a human-built [[delver]] maze. The flight gets in their starfighters, stark white triangular wedges of steel designed for flying in the vacuum of space. Spensa, [[Morriumur]], and [[Brade]] receive interceptors while [[Vapor]] pilots a sniper and the [[kitsen]] have a larger battleship with stations for the whole crew. Spensa suggests that Vapor should be flightleader and she leads the flight through a preflight checklist and a couple of basic maneuvers. After this, Winzik comes on over the general line and projects and animated video, accompanied by 200 year old footage of the [[Acumidian delver]] destroying the planet [[Farhaven]], over the pilots' screens to show them what they can expect from a delver itself, as little is known about the delver maze. The video ends, and Vapor informs the flight they've been instructed to head to certain coordinates and await their turn in the maze.

After exiting the [[delver maze]], [[Vapor]] has [[Spensa]] run the team through a couple of scatter formations, then the flight returns to the docking bay and they return to their jump room. Spensa relaxes and settles into the [[nowhere]] and hears [[Winzik]]'s commands to the engine room. He asks for the [[cytonics|cytonic]] hyperdrive to be prepared, but nothing happens. The engine room reports back that the cytonic hyperdrive experienced interference from the two cytonics on board. They replace it with another cytonic hyperdrive, and this time it works. Spensa takes a shuttle home with three reptilian aliens. [[M-Bot]] makes contact with Spensa and tells her that the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'' indeed had a shield that was blocking his communications. Spensa returns to the embassy, where Mrs. [[Chamwit]] has been dutifully waiting. Mrs. Chamwit tries to cook something for Spensa, but Spena refuses, and the housekeeper leaves. M-Bot tells Spensa she did nothing suspicious while Spensa was away, and Spensa tells M-Bot that the individual ship she was issued was not equipped with a cytonic hyperdrive, but rather the ''Weights and Measures'' had one. M-Bot tells her he could probably reproduce small espionage devices to gain more intelligence on the [[Superiority]]'s cytonic hyperdrive technology. Spensa falls asleep briefly, and wakes up to a light flashing that indicated she'd received a delivery from Mrs. Chamwit, a delicious pastry.

[[Spensa]] and [[Brade]] practice flying together with the expertise only gained by wingmates of a couple decades, then the flight regroups and contemplates the weapon the [[Superiority]] has been developing to combat the [[delver]]s. [[Vapor]] condemns the rumor that her species is employed as assassins, then takes Brade on a run through the delver maze, leaving Spensa to meditate in her ship alone. She unstraps and sits floating in her cockpit when she relaxes and hears [[Becca Nightshade| Gran-Gran]] trying to speak to her. Spensa panics and tries to speak back, but to no avail. Vapor returns and she and Spensa agree that it is time for the flight to go through the delver maze. Brade takes off on her own, and Spensa heads in with [[Hesho]] and his crew, while [[Morriumur]] and Vapor pair up. Hesho and Spensa go through multiple tunnels and rooms, one room containing an actual boulder in an odd place and another room allowing sound to travel even when Hesho's instruments team reports a vacuum outside the ship. Hesho has his crew take images of the writing on the wall for future reference, and Spensa tells him where she's seen it before, so he tells her she might have a [[nowhere]] portal on her home planet, a valuable source of [[acclivity stone]] the Superiority is desperate to monopolize. After about a half hour of flying, Hesho and Spensa a room that looks like the membrane to Spensa, though Hesho sees nothing. Spensa takes a deep breath to calm herself, then sees the entire universe. She sees it from the delvers' point of view, all the creatures inhabiting worlds she sees as annoying, loud insects and bugs that buzz around her and annoy her. She finally snaps out of it, and demands Flight Command tell her if they sent her that hallucination. They tell her they didn't, so Spensa and Hesho leave and regroup with the flight. Brade is angry and annoyed, having gotten stuck in the first few rooms, not being able to tell what was real and fake. The flight returns to the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'' to head back to [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]].

The ''[[Weights and Measures]]'' enters the [[nowhere]], and all of the eyes focus on the ship's cytonic hyperdrive, until one eye stares right at [[Spensa]], just before the ship returns to [[Staraight (station)|Starsight's]] docks. While waiting to dock in the jump room, Spensa overhears [[Hesho]] talking to Senator [[Aria]] about even though each vote went unanimously against him, the [[Superiority]] still suspects him of exerting his influence as the former monarch over the Senate. He tells Aria that the Superiority must want the Senate to choose what they want, not what Hesho wants. Spensa discusses the Superiority's hegemony of the worlds of "lesser races" with Hesho but doesn't see [[Morriumur]] seated behind them, so he walks away, embarrassed. [[Brade]] tells Spensa she thinks the flight is making progress, which is a huge step in the right direction for her and Spensa's relationship, and on her way off the ship, Spensa tells the guard at the intersection near the engine room that she has to use the restroom. The guard calls for a drone, who leads her past the guard and to a restroom. Spensa times herself and overhears the drone operator speaking with a colleague over the drone's unmuted mic. The drone escorts her back to the intersection, where Hesho has been waiting. Spensa tells Hesho she is a [[cytonics|cytonic]], and he tells her of his grandmother's attempt to steal a cytonic hyperdrive a few decades back and his species' subsequent temporary loss of citizenship. On the shuttle back to the embassy, Spensa notices that [[Gul'zah]] and his protesters are no longer protesting, and [[M-Bot]] tells her they reached an agreement with the Superiority, compensation for the families of the deceased and a promise to institute stricter safety protocol in future tryouts.

[[Spensa]] wakes to find the cleaning drone parts have successfully been shipped to the embassy. She dismisses Mrs. [[Chamwit]], and takes the boxes upstairs to begin working on the espionage drones. Spensa sets to work on removing the cleaning parts of the drones and leaving the arms while [[M-Bot]] tells her about humanity's first contact with aliens, organized by [[Phone Company|an old telecommunications company]]. Spensa asks him if there's any information on [[Doomslug]], so M-Bot checks and finds that she is a species of molluscoid called a [[taynix]]. They are reportedly extremely venomous and should be reported to authorities immediately if spotted. M-Bot attempts to write code for a personality for the drone before his watchdog subroutine restarts him multiple times, so he decides to make a drone without a personality. Making the drone also requires taking some of M-Bot's hologram technology, so Spensa covers his exposed portions with a tarp. Spensa and M-Bot plan to release the drone when Spensa goes on the ''[[Weights and Measures]]''' bathroom again, and have it fly into the engine room and take pictures of the cytonic hyperdrive. M-Bot tells Spensa that [[Cuna]] wants an update on the training, and then tells her that someone is downstairs. Spensa expects Cuna, but M-Bot tells her it is in fact [[Morriumur]].

[[Morriumur]] asks [[Spensa]] if he's really worth training, as the current draft of himself might be wiped soon, to which Spensa responds yes, that he is improving rapidly as a pilot. The two continue discussing Morriumur's parents, and Morriumur tells Spensa he wants to show her a park in the city. On their way, Morriumur tells Spensa he overheard her and [[Hesho]]'s conversation earlier aboard the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'' and argues that although their are flaws to the [[Superiority]], just as their are in every government, it has provided good lives for millions of beings through the monopolization of [[cytonics|cytonic]] hyperdrives. They finally arrive at the park, where Spensa sees globs of water floating in the air with smaller globs floating around the park, with hundreds of children splashing around and throwing water at each other. Once a clock on a nearby wall reaches a certain point, all the water in the park rains down on the children, leaving them squealing with delight. It is at this point that Spensa lets her guard down for the first time since arriving, realizing the Superiority isn't some grand façade, that its citizens truly are happy, they're just average everyday beings, just like her and the people of [[Detritus]]. Spensa tells Morriumur of the stories [[Becca Nightshade|her grandmother]] told her, saying they are from the cadamique, the [[UrDail]] holy book; stories of warriors who went off to war and succeeded, but came back different and unable to adapt to the society they had fought so hard to protect. Spensa tells Morriumur the Superiority needs different people like him and her. They head back to the embassy, and Morriumur sees [[Doomslug]] and immediately becomes aggressive, telling Spensa she needs to get rid of the [[taynix]]. Spensa tells him it is a very similar-looking species, and Morriumur tells her he won't report her. He leaves, and M-Bot tells Spensa she needs to see the news. She turns on a monitor on the wall to a news station that shows an image of Detritus and exclaims that the humans are close to escaping.

[[Spensa]] boards the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'' and has her bag inspected, but her camouflaged drone evades detection. She again heads to the intersection near the engine room and tells the guard stationed there she needs to use the restroom. The guard calls for a drone, who escorts her to the restroom. Spensa silently takes off her backpack, unpacks the drone, and sets the plan into motion. While leaving the restroom, she realizes she forgot her destructor pistol on the drone, and at the same time [[Winzik]] comes on over the comm announcing that [[Superiority]] government officials are onboard the ''Weights and Measures'' to observe the progress of the [[delver]] training program. After arriving at the delver maze, Spensa and [[Brade]] take a run, and encounter embers moving at speeds above Mag-4, and Spensa and Brade have to perform extremely complex [[Starfighter#Light-Lance|light lance]] maneuvers and [[Starfighter#Destructors|destructor]] shots to survive. Spensa asks Flight Command what the fast embers were, and Winzik tells them some embers have been observed to move at extreme speeds and exhibit reckless behavior, so the Department of Protective Services equipped some of the drones with more powerful boosters. Spensa and Brade continue moving through the delver maze, and eventually reach a room that Spensa's sensors indicate has artificial gravity, and even an atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen. Brade exits her starfighter and Spensa follows, and the pair explore the heart of the delver. Spensa postulates that the delver maze the Superiority claims to have been a leftover human project may actually be a dead delver, as she has experienced hallucinations Superiority technology could not produce, such as the eyes on the walls and images of Spensa. Brade rejects this, and Spensa sees a web of deep green by a pile of rocks and pushes it away. Its absence reveals a two meter hole that Brade enters. No pilots have ever returned from the inside of the membrane, so there is nothing else beyond the hole. Brade tells Spensa she is done training, as the rooms are repeating themselves and will make the pilots grow complacent and unprepared for when they have to really face a delver. Spensa disagrees, and Brade returns to her ship and tells Flight Command she is going to test the superweapon. She pushes a button on her starfighter's console, and a flash bursts from her ship and Spensa is hit with an invisible wave that leaves her knowing exactly where [[Detritus]] is.

Spensa realizes she can get home now, as the location of Detritus is burned into her mind, unfading. Brade informs Flight Command that the weapon was successful, and that she is confident that in the event of an actual delver attack, the weapon would divert the delver to the human refuge on Detritus. On their way back to the ''Weights and Measures'', Spensa and Brade argue about the ethics of loosing a delver on Detritus and Spensa tries to work up the courage to tell Brade that she's really a human and invite her to return with her to Detritus. Brade also tells Spensa she can teach her things about her powers that she never imagined, but Spensa is still skeptical about dealing with the delvers. Winzik informs Spensa and Brade that they are to report to him when they return to the ''Weights and Measures''. They return, and are escorted by a drone on a red carpet to a room containing a party. The room is filled with Superiority officials and higher ups in the Department of Protective Services all chatting and celebrating ridding the galaxy of the fear of delver attacks. Around the room are screens showing footage of the pilots dogfighting embers, and Winzik is making the rounds pitching the idea of the delver defense force to many government officials. Cuna and Winzik square off on opposite sides of Spensa, and Spensa asks Cuna if she knew about the plan to loose the delvers on human refuges. Cuna says yes, then the party stops as Brade throws her drink against the wall in outrage, so Spensa follows her, consoling her. They return to the jump room where their flight congratulates them on reaching the heart, and Spensa settles in to listen to Winzik's commands to the engine room. They switch out the hyperdrive again, and Spensa's espionage drone informs her that it has tripped a sensor in the engine room and will likely be discovered. An alarm throughout the ship goes off, and Spensa tells the drone to detach the destructor pistol, turn off the safety, and start pulling the trigger.

Spensa hears the gunshots echoing in the halls and shouts for the crew to help her defend the ship, and runs out of the jump room. The kitsen join her, and she runs down the hall, where the guard normally stationed there is cowering behind a wall. Spensa asks for a gun, and the guard hands her a handheld destructor pistol and they march down the hall. Spensa tells the drone to fly down their hallway, fire a couple of shots into the ceiling, drop the gun, and then fly into Spensa's bag. The drone executes the plan, scaring the guard, and Spensa shoots the falling gun on her fourth shot, causing an impressive explosion. Spensa dives on top of the guard to shield her from the blast, then tells her that she shot down the drone. The guard tells Spensa to grab her bag and return to her jump room, which Spensa does gladly. Spensa returns to her jump room, and the drone informs her its holographic unit is offline. The ''Weights and Measures'' docks at Starsight, and the pilots all line up to have their bags inspected. Vapor orders Spensa to come with her, and Spensa follows. Vapor leads her to a sleek shuttle, with Cuna inside. Spensa looks back at her flight, preparing to be searched, and decides her only option is to get in the shuttle.

Cuna's shuttle reaches a safe distance away from the ''Weights and Measures'' when Cuna hands Spensa a paper detailing the UrDail's personal communication with her. The papers go from not wanting to send more pilots to the Superiority to cutting off communications until Alanik is returned. Cuna comes to the conclusion that Spensa is simply an UrDail spy sent to steal hyperdrive technology, and that she never truly intended to gain Superiority citizenship. Cuna inspects Spensa's espionage drone, and Vapor tells her it is former figment technology. Spensa tells the drone to play back the video it took two minutes before hyperjump. The video shows the engineering room, and the subsequent conversation between the engineers and Winzik, then it shows an engineer getting up to replace the hyperdrive. He walks over to a cage, opens it, and pulls out a yellow slug with blue spines.

Spensa watches the rest of the video, and finally understands why Commander Spears instructed M-Bot to search for fungi. Vapor then reveals that she followed Spensa the day she went on a walk with Morriumur and saw Doomslug in the embassy window. Cuna tells Spensa she is going to show her what the Superiority is, and leads her down the hall. Vapor tells Spensa she can trust Cuna, so Spensa asks if she can trust Vapor. Vapor tells Spensa she hasn't told anyone what Spensa really is, so Spensa decides she can trust Vapor. Spensa tells M-Bot that Doomslug is a hyperdrive, and tells him if she dies he is to fly back to Detritus and tell them. Cuna tells Spensa the Superiority has been on the brink of losing its stranglehold on cytonic hyperdrives for some time, so some bureaucrats, like Winzik, reached the conclusion that the delvers must be used to control the Superiority. This led him and Cuna to create the Delver Resistance Program, Winzik's motive being to scare people and Cuna's motive being to convince her species lesser species' aggression was okay. A pair of doors open in the chamber and Gul'zah is led in, chained. Spensa tells Cuna she thought the protesters had reached an agreement, and Cuna tells her that the Department of Protective Services was brought in, and agreed to the protesters demands, in exchange for Gul'zah. Some people on Starsight fear the events onboard the ''Weights and Measures'' were arranged by revolutionaries led by Gul'zah, so the decision was made to exile him. The center of the room shimmers, and an orb of pure blackness emerges, an orb Spensa immediately recognizes as a portal to the nowhere. Gul'zah's face is pressed to it, and his body stretches, and then the rest of him is sucked into the orb. Realizing Cuna is sincere and that she has few choices left, Spensa takes a deep breath and deactivates her hologram.