“A ship is approaching at high velocity.” The Dragon"s words jarred her from her thoughts. She really had to reactivate direct-brain communications. It was so much quicker.
“Damn. Is it the Angelic Gaze?”
“It is a Void Walker attack ship. It hid in the upper atmosphere while it approached.”
It could only be Kane. His manoeuvre meant his ship would have picked up a high thermal load, but clearly not enough to destroy it. “Why didn"t we see it?”
“Concordance have eliminated too many of our orbital nanosensors. We now have significant blind spots.”
Great. “Get us out of here now.”
The Radiant Dragon seemed to swell as its drives lurched into life. Selene threw herself onto the acceleration couch. She pulled telemetry feeds into the flecks in her brain. The arc of Borial swam away
