CHAPTER 2
They turned off the probability drive five days later, falling back into actual space at one percent of c, the speed of light, and then kept the ship under a quarter e-gee acceleration.
Bria had been, if such a thing were possible, even more reticent than usual while they traveled. Tarkos did not hear her voice again until they dropped into space and his commander ordered them all into spacesuits and onto the bridge. Now Tarkos and Bria sat side by side in full Predator armor, while behind them Eydis stood in a simple vacuum suit, helmet under her arm. The robot Tiklik’al’Takas crouched near the door, its black legs folded neatly at its sides. In its quarters, now transformed into a prison cell, the three remaining parts of Gowgoroup were given an emergency decompression sh
