Deliver unto the Void - Book 1 The Emotional anchor.

Kaelthorn “Kally” Arden Varrick von Shadowvally was never supposed to matter. The bright-green eleventh son of a cold aristocratic house spent his life chasing the impossible ideal of the Delivery Driver — a hologram hero who could carry any package through any danger. His only real constant was Lumin Rook, a bright-purple fox who pretended to be a lazy space-bum while quietly ensuring the wolf survived a world that wanted him gone. Then Kally’s dying father threw him a single tarnished ring, a briefcase of untraceable credits, and a final order: never come back. The ring belongs to one of the Twelve — the inner circle of a pirate lord who does not forgive loose ends. What begins as a desperate escape becomes a running collision with scams, ambushes, clown mercenaries, and a station that should not exist. Nine-Tails is a modular kingdom of misfits ruled by Kitsu, a demi-eldritch latex fox who collects the galaxy’s broken and discarded. Here, family is not blood. It is claimed. And once claimed, it is defended with terrifying loyalty. Kally still wants to be the Delivery Boy. Lumin still wants to keep him alive. The ring still wants him dead. In a universe that keeps refusing to cooperate, two childhood friends will discover that the most dangerous cargo is the one you carry in your chest — and that sometimes the only way home is to stop running from what you are. A found-family space opera of soft hearts, sharp knives, absurd chaos, and the quiet, stubborn hope that even an eleventh son might still deliver something that matters.