“Its physical strength is enormous,” said Ondo, speaking brain-to-brain. “It"s more than a match even for you.”
“Yeah, maybe. I"ve got all the brains in the family, though.”
Eventually, the winding road opened out onto gentler slopes. The territory reminded her of the uplands of Maes Far, except that there was only grassland, with none of the purple and red and white meadowfire with its thick, springy foliage that she remembered.
A wide plain lay spread out in front of them, patches of green and yellow interspersed with the winding curves of rivers and straighter lines that had to be irrigation channels, or tracks, or QuantLev routes. The sun shone directly into her eyes, making details difficult to pick out, glinting off the waterways. She could see round patches that were clearly s
