“Question,” Warren said. “How do we know the ship’s telling the truth? For all we know, the Rapatho may be the real good guys and the Perdenneh are black-hearted villains.”
I shrugged and paused for a moment. I hadn’t considered that, but the answer wasn’t long in coming. “You’ve seen Losha. Do you think that bombardment and destruction was the work of the good guys?”
People thought of the bodies left drifting desiccated in the vacuum of space. No one bothered to answer. But Linda did ask, “If the Perdenneh are so nice, why did they kidnap us?”
I sighed. “Long story. The kidnapping was unintentional. This ship, which has the romantic name of 52489923, was on its equivalent of a 5-year mission to boldly go where no Perdenneh have gone before. They were attacked in interstellar space by a
