“And who was that?”
“I'm not the first lonely renegade to devote their life to recovering the truth about Concordance. There have been many such over the centuries, and one of them made contact with me and gave me the Dragon when she was nearing the end of her road.”
She knew little about Ondo's past. She had quizzed him extensively about her father, his history as it affected her, but there was still much she didn't know about him. Possibly too much. She'd been too wrapped up in herself, just as he'd been too wrapped up in his research.
His words confirmed something she'd observed more than once: his technological and engineering skill was at a level far in excess of anything she'd witnessed or suspected possible. He'd shown her how he'd woven his engram flecks through the neurons of h
