26
I WENT TO CAPTAIN Luczon’s chair. He looked slightly less woozy and his green eyes focused on me as I stopped before his chair and bowed.
“We have decided that we can take you to Asto, if you wish.”
He raised white eyebrows. “After all this, you’re going to let us pass? I thought you would have more objections than that.”
“You alone, on our ships, to negotiate. This ship stays here.”
“Hmmm.”
He said nothing for a while. His face was impossible to read.
“We’re also happy if you want to send an envoy, if, being the captain, you prefer to stay with the ship—”
“No. I’ll come.”
That was quick.
“I need to inform my crew.” He made a move to get up, but Sheydu, with the gun next to him, shifted ever so slightly. The captain eyed her. “If you call off your fighter.”
I made the Indrahu
