“My apologies, Primo, but there are matters here that I had to attend to. You bade me pursue the heretics Ondo Lagan and Selene Ada.” Which was true, although she was privately more concerned with extracting knowledge from them than with bringing them to the light of Omn.
“And how is that proceeding?”
“We believe both are now dead. Their ship entered the atmosphere of a planet utterly inimical to life, and has not reappeared.”
“You have promised me their death before.”
“This time I am sure of it.”
“It is to be hoped that you are not also engineering another Fenwinter.”
So, they had finally caught up on that. That was their urgent concern. It had taken them months to discover the truth of the pathogen she"d released. They really were out of touch, hiding away at the God Star.
