“But then the Overseers returned.”
“I started spotting them several years ago,” Ven confirmed. “And occurrences have become more common since. I"ve used every stealth protocol I know to avoid detection. I don"t know if they"ve been effective or if the Overseers just don"t care enough to respond to my presence.”
Turning away from the hologram, Larani paced across the floor with arms folded, heaving out a breath when she reached the door. “I admit it"s unnerving,” she said. “But why come to me?”
“Because the Overseers are only part of the problem.”
She returned to the galaxy map just in time to watch it ripple out of existence. Ven"s hologram reappeared, this time composed of blue light. The spectral figure raised a hand to gesture casually at the wall. “I"ve traveled through the new Sup
