CHAPTER 312978 Olinda
Drac, the blood cleaned off him before I allowed him at the piloting station on the bridge, brought up the ship systems with quick flicks and blinks. The control screens were dim ghosts floating around him. Nothing too bright, dull colors that bled into the infrared. Further than I could see, Nosferan vision in darkness was even better than mine.
Tabitha was still at work in the engineering sections. The uneaten remains of Pike's agent had been scanned and stored for disposal once we reached orbit. As I'd suspected, the man had nanowire implants all wrapped throughout his brain. No way that was all voluntary. I recorded the details for the future and filed them away.
We'd already gotten our clearances from the Spaceport Control to depart.
“Let's take her up,” I sa
