2. Void WalkerSelene deactivated her internal telemetry visualization. Ondo was gone. She had only just got him back, and now he was dead. There could be no doubt. The Radiant Dragon had been destroyed, taking Ondo with it – as well as the remains of Eb and all the datastores and flecks they'd retrieved from around the galaxy. At a stroke, all that history had been wiped out. Ondo had followed his labyrinthine trail through the stars, but it had led only to his death. He would never know what lay at the centre of the maze. Neither would she; Concordance had them surrounded and there was no escape.
A quietness filled the cramped space of the lander as it drifted at the edges of the star's seething heliosphere. It was only in that moment that Selene finally accepted that Ondo hadn't been pe
