Forty Three

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Forty-three children. One guardian. An impossible choice.

In the vast reaches of space, a Ketheri keeper stands watch over forty-three human children held in stasis — refugees from a war they were too young to understand. When the facility that protects them begins to fail, the keeper must make a decision that no protocol was written to cover. The First is the story of duty pushed past its limit, of compassion that crosses the boundary between species, and of what it truly means to protect something you were never meant to love.

Part of the Sentinel Universe Short Story series from author Brian Bullock.