The pathway – if that was what it was – seemed to find its bearing and with a sudden surge extended rapidly outwards, stretching to reach the line coming to meet it from the other moonlet. In only a few tens of seconds, the two lines met and became one: a solid connecting line, effortlessly absorbing the changing positions of the two moonlets as they hurtled through space on their respective orbits. A bridge between the moons.
“That is how we walk across space to Delta,” said Godel. “Delta, or any of the moons as they pass each other. These connecting walkways form around the perigee points, and we can move freely between the moonlets as we wish.”
“I"ve never heard of anything like them.”
“They only exist here. They were dormant when Vulpis first came; one of his achievements was to
