She turned on him in her rage. His words made no sense. “Go where? Go how? We need to save him. My father, your friend, is dying in front of our eyes. Can"t you f*****g see?”
“Look.” Ondo was pointing into the sky. A ring of three lights shone, like stars at dusk. She could make no sense of what they were, but they were unimportant. A few steps away from her, her father"s body lay twitching upon the ice. With the right medical attention, he could still be saved.
“We have to leave,” said Ondo again. “I"m sorry, there"s nothing we can do for him. If we"d known he was here, then we could have tried. The Dragon has come for us and we have to get out.”
“What are you talking about?”
“It must have triggered three of the orbital nukes I parked in orbit.”
“Nukes.”
“Fission weapons, crud
