“You"re right, we should wait until you"re absolutely ready,” she conceded. “You know best.”
“Oh, it"s entirely possible I don"t. I think you"re right. Let"s go in now; there"s no sign of any Concordance activity. They may be materialising just outside our sphere of knowledge, but that"s always a risk.”
Selene spun up the reaction drives, and they surged towards a carefully calculated interception point on the orbital path of Maes Far.
Ten hours later, they were locked into high orbit of the planet. They"d still seen no sign of any other ship arriving, no suggestion Concordance forces were approaching. From their vantage point, the disc of the shroud was an insignificant sliver of matter in the gulf of space, but because of it, the surface of the planet was dark. No cities blazed out
