“We can"t trust this entity,” said Selene, speaking brain-to-brain with Ondo. “It may claim it knows nothing about Concordance, but it was clearly created by something just as evil. The scale of the destruction unleashed by these Tok make that very clear.”
She and Ondo stood on the platform at the centre of the observation dome once more. This time, the ship was moving; she could pick up minute parallax shifts within the plasma cloud structures against the background stars. Surtr stood between them, unmoving, by some invisible means steering them towards a set of coordinates closer to the neutron star. They were still assuming it couldn"t intrude on their private conversations – although they were still in the dark about the extent of its abilities.
Ondo said, “Are we absolutely sure T
