As they crashed through the atmosphere of Coronade, it was her two ascents from Maes Far in identical landers that came back to Selene. She saw again the blinding light of the Cathedral ship"s beam-weapon strike from her first ascent, the gaping gulf of air beneath her as her fuselage was cut away and she spiralled out of control. She lived again the violence of the concussions shaking through the craft, the helplessness of her situation. The wanting it to end. She saw again, also, the blinding plume of the nuke blasts from her second ascent, moments after the murder of her father.
Perhaps Ondo guessed what she was going through. He spoke directly to her, brain-to-brain. “Are you okay?”
She nodded to him, forced herself to concentrate. “They"ll struggle to target us as these winds thro
