CHAPTER 262978 Olinda
Crouch returned carrying a metallic case. Subha stirred as he entered and rose to her feet. Crouch splashed through the water and came straight to where we waited. He held the case out to me.
I stepped forward and took it. The case wasn’t large, but it was heavy. There was a handle built into the top and some sort of twisting latch on the face of the case.
“There,” Crouch said. “Take that back to your ship. Open it and follow the instructions. It will allow your ship’s STC drive to move through time.”
That seemed incredibly dangerous, to simply hand such technology over to us.
“What are the limitations?” Subha asked, speaking what was on my mind.
“The tach field generator will only function once,” Crouch said. “It’ll get you back there, but the process will burn
