“What? Have you lost your marbles?” Ay-ttho was astonished. “You mean it, don’t you?”
“With any luck, you won’t actually fly into the star,” said Witt. “The energy exchangers should hopefully have harvested enough energy by then to fold space.”
“And if they haven’t?”
“Then you will fly into the star.”
“And die?”
“Obviously.”
“Ay-ttho? How much do we really need the Mastery of the Stars? I mean, this scouting vessel isn’t too bad, and this planet seems okay. We’ve been to much worse places.”
Ay-ttho observed Sevan, but she was deep in her own thoughts.
“Oh, no, you must go,” said Witt. “And I will come with you. That’s how much faith I have in this technology.”
Ay-ttho looked at him for a long time and then sighed.
"We"ll think about it,” she said at last. "But, so as not to lose
