Chapter 46
Australia
In the end, Muriel gave up fighting and told them everything. After that first conversation, no one showed her the neural scrambler, and they didn’t need to. It was always there, out of sight, ready to plunge her back into senselessness. The abyss of nothing.
And she didn’t want to go back there.
They’d broken her. Muriel paced the suite, unable to shake the sick feeling inside, watching the screen’s display showing the progress of Australia into orbit around the gas giant that CY-HC-2347 orbited.
Despite the dates, names, and events that she had revealed to Constantine, that she had shouted at the others, Blackstone hadn’t altered the mission. The Australia continued into the system as if unaware of the Nosferan presence.
Dyami lifted his big head up from the co
