“Any idea yet how they do that?”
“None.”
Selene considered, weighing up the best course of action to take. “They're going to be watching Coronade closely now; it won't be at all easy to go back there.”
“Before we do anything, we need to study the telemetry you harvested. I'm getting initial results now.”
Their ships were close, almost touching. She decelerated to pause a few hundred metres away from him.
“You should EVA over,” she said. “The Aether Dragon is not in good shape.”
“It'll hold together for a little while yet. At least its Mind isn't in a catatonic fugue.”
He sent what he was uncovering for her to study. The atmospheric probes had clearly had a lot of trouble detecting anything on the surface, blasted as they were by supersonic winds and fierce electrical storms. They'd
