“Everyone stay seated!” Tolo yelled. “Kars, can we get the engines back up?”
“Working on it!”
“Meelon! Are the shields still activated?”
There was no answer. In the pitch darkness, it was impossible for Sienna to see anything other than the pale stars slowly rotating outside the main viewscreen. Except they weren’t rotating. The ship was.
Another bright flash reflected on the bottom left of the screen. Its glare was so intense, Sienna could see it through her tightly shut eyelids. As there was no power, there was no way to dim the screen.
The ship trembled in the wake of the blast, yet the flare was proof the shields still held. It took her a moment to realize why. The shields weren’t kept activated by the ship. Meelon had total control of them. As long as he was plugged into the vess
