Chapter Sixteen
Pacheco was familiar with the layout of the Thylacine, but he’d gotten lost on his way to the bridge. He suddenly noticed that he was wandering the corridors on the lower decks, which were empty and quiet.
Ever since abandoning the Camaradon, he’d felt light-headed. Everything around him seemed surreal. Images of the battle flashed constantly through his mind, making it hard for him to concentrate on his surroundings and what people said to him. They sounded like they were speaking to him through cotton wool or from a far distance.
He’d never lost a ship before.
He recalled the Camaradon’s jump into the remaining Shadow-controlled sector of the galaxy and the discovery of the gigantic Shadow ship. It sheer size had been impossible to grasp. Pacheco’s first officer had c
