They emerged into normal space a little over an hour later.
Ondo had placed them three hundred million kilometres from the stellar mass, a point perpendicular to the orbit of Maes Far. He"d explained his reasoning to her back at the Refuge. “In any system, most activity takes place in the narrow disc where planets and asteroids and even the most eccentric objects orbit. Away from the ecliptic plane, we"re much less likely to be spotted.”
The Dragon sat in space and waited, drinking in telemetry from the various nanosensors Ondo had seeded throughout the system on his previous visits. In the year and a half since her rescue, his devices had watched everything taking place in the system: departures and arrivals, anything out of the ordinary. A proportion of the probes had been lost, eith
