With the Abyssal Fleet seemingly vanquished the question becomes, how best to adapt the girls to civilian life? The answer chosen by Fleet Command is an adoption program, but both the girls who are to be "mothballed" in this way and their adopters just might find that winning the peace will be harder than winning the war. Thank you to Wolfsbane 706 for beta-reading/proofing.

Beneath the shadow of the Skyreach Project, long-held grudges are being pursued, and long-held debts are coming due. And when the day of reckoning comes, those who wished to see its arrival may find that getting what they wanted is the greatest curse of all. Part III of the Causality Loop series.