Dawn has her answer - or she's almost certain she does. One more trip to the station, a few diagnostic tests to confirm it, and the puzzle that's killed seven people comes apart in her hands. She's ninety-eight percent sure. It's the last two percent that worries her, and the thing she keeps reminding herself: don't get so caught up in one thing that you stop paying attention.

A storm has rolled in over the station. The door opens for her. And in the dark, with the data closing in around her, she finally meets the thing that everyone's been calling a ghost - and learns what it actually is.

What follows leaves the Guard with questions Dawn won't answer, an apology owed to the one man she was told never to disobey, and a quiet ritual waiting for her at the end of the line.

The conclusion of The Last Samurai, Book 1 of First Light: An Audio Drama. Written, narrated, and produced by Scott McGowan.

The station isn't empty when Dawn arrives. The door is open, and inside there's blood - a Hunter who should never have been cleared to be there, killed with a precision no animal could manage. The Guild's scanners confirm what they always do: no lifesigns, no assailant, nothing. Just Dawn, a body, and a gap in the information that's no longer a gap but a chasm.

The whispers of a vengeful spirit harden into something Hunters now trade as fact, and the Guard moves to bury it before it starves the Guild of contracts. Dawn keeps her own counsel and keeps watching - the board, the rumours, and a small red sticker outside the Guild that simply will not come off. Somewhere in the noise, a connection is waiting for her to notice it.

Episode two of First Light: An Audio Drama. Written, narrated, and produced by Scott McGowan.

Dawn doesn't believe in ghosts. She isn't built for belief at all, only for what she can verify. So when the Guild starts whispering about a vengeful spirit picking off Hunters at a remote weather station - killing in daylight, then leaving the scanners with nothing to find - what unsettles her isn't the bodies; it's the gap in the information. Something is down there, though every instrument says otherwise.

Under the cover of a routine maintenance contract, Dawn sets out to close that gap one experiment at a time. And in the quiet hours between, she keeps circling a smaller, stranger problem of her own: the growing suspicion that she might, somehow, like things.

Episode one of First Light: An Audio Drama. Written, narrated, and produced by Scott McGowan.