The Empty Warrior
“Valessanna quickly studied the positions and vectors of Vigilant’s Vazilek assailants. She wanted to know as rapidly as possible what, if anything, had changed since the last time she had seen their relative positions displayed. One Vazilek ship lay close by the aberrant world, accelerating away from it but still moving so slowly that its progress was barely perceptible. The other two were just completing the long, sweeping arc of the braking maneuver that would put them directly between the Vi...gilant and her objective.
“Vigilant,” she ordered, “add small craft icons to spatial plot.” A yellow diamond, apparently the barge, appeared and looked to be still at the extraction point on the dark side of the aberrant world. Valessanna rotated the image this way and that, zoomed it in and out, but was unable to locate the cutter anywhere in the vicinity.
“Colvan, I’m only showing Albatross on my plot. Where’s Lindy?”
There was a long pause before Busht answered, and when he did so, he spoke mournfully, anguish encrusting his lugubrious response.MoreLess
“Vigilant,” she ordered, “add small craft icons to spatial plot.” A yellow diamond, apparently the barge, appeared and looked to be still at the extraction point on the dark side of the aberrant world. Valessanna rotated the image this way and that, zoomed it in and out, but was unable to locate the cutter anywhere in the vicinity.
“Colvan, I’m only showing Albatross on my plot. Where’s Lindy?”
There was a long pause before Busht answered, and when he did so, he spoke mournfully, anguish encrusting his lugubrious response.MoreLess
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