Chapter 67
Why wasn’t he dead? Jess used his implants to check the time. He should be dead. The blast from the Casatarna’s engines should have wiped out the shuttle by now, and probably the Wanderer too. Unless… had the Wanderer somehow sacrificed itself to save him? He reached out for it tentatively, dreading the empty space he was sure he would find…
The Wanderer was there! There and sending soothing messages to him. The Casatarna was still there, too. How was that possible? He’d seen its engines start to explode.
The Wanderer reached out to Jess, pushing information into his mind. He watched the Casatarna’s engines suffer minor explosions after which the instability disappeared. In fact all readings disappeared. Before Jess could wonder any more about the cause he receive
