The Watcher
THE IMAGE FROM THE TINY camera was grainy.
It was bad luck that the rescue was happening just as Io moved through Jupiter’s shadow and the light was too low to get a decent picture.
The butterfly satellite that the ship had released before going further down to the surface should have had a good view of the area, but the picture quality was rubbish.
The two moth fighters released from the wellship Thor IV were clearly visible, because their beacons showed up as dots of light in the projection. They flew over the landscape below, in which Vega could make out a blocky building and a number of ground vehicles approaching the blocky building.
“I’m going down at the next pass,” Olek said.
Vega couldn’t see him, but likely he’d be hanging onto the outside of one of the moths, w
