Chapter FifteenIT TURNED OUT THAT they were only a few light years from the scene of the battle. The engines hadn’t generated sufficient power in the short time available to take them very far, but they had escaped the notice of the Shadows, for the time being. The dark-haired officer asked for ship-wide status reports, and the ship’s crew listed the dead and injured along with the material damage to the ship. As that went on, someone must have been fixing the artificial gravity because, not long after the last of the reports came in, and when it was established that all the surviving crew had gotten themselves to a safe place, the gravity reactivated. Jas had propelled herself into an unoccupied seat on the bridge. She welcomed the return of the sensation of heaviness. She couldn’t reme

