Carakenne - A Journey to Nyorfias Novella

NOTE: This is not a standalone novella, but a companion piece to the JTN trilogy. It is highly recommended that you have read at least through the end of Gravity, Journey to Nyorfias, Book 2 if not the entire trilogy before reading this novella.
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When a mission goes terribly wrong, leaving most of her unit incapacitated and vulnerable, the task of damage control falls upon the shoulders of a new arrival to Sergeant Rett's platoon: a shy, brilliant, night-blind, and small-statured soldier with an affinity for explosives and a love for all things science and technology.

In the second book of the JTN trilogy, Gravity, Journey to Nyorfias Book 2, the episode "Small Packages" relates the events of this mission from Sergeant Rett's point of view. That story would have had an entirely different outcome if not for one small but significant factor: a soldier named Carakenne.

This is the tale as Carakenne experiences it.