Welcome to First Light.
"The Last Samurai" is the first installment in First Light, a collection set on a newly colonized world far from Old Earth. Dawn - a methodical, analytical android Hunter - keeps hearing rumours around the Guild about a "vengeful spirit" killing teams at a remote weather station. The deaths are brutal, the scans turn up nothing, and Hunters are starting to refuse the contracts. Dawn doesn't believe in ghosts. But she does believe in puzzles with missing pieces, and she has every intention of filling in the gaps.
It's a quiet, character-driven kind of sci-fi; expect tea, observation, and the occasional moment of sudden violence.
Content note: This episode contains a description of a dismembered body and an on-page suicide. Nothing gratuitous, but worth knowing going in.
