6. Void WraithsSelene sat by Ondo's bed in the Dragon's medsuite – an inversion of the arrangement that had once been so familiar to both of them. She'd assumed he'd be asleep, drowsy from the sedation he'd been put under, but he was sitting up in bed, bent over the keyboard of one of the archaic computer interfaces he liked to work with. He'd been conscious for twenty-four hours, finally emerging groggily from his coma. The Dragon hung in normal space, its random escape flight complete, watching and waiting for any signs of pursuit. So far there were none, although Selene was keeping the metaspace projectors fully spun-up in case any Concordance ships materialised.
The clatter of Ondo's keyboard as he typed sounded strangely like heavy winter rain on the roof of her childhood home. He'd
