Selene talked to him directly, brain-to-brain. She had to hope the Warden entity didn't have the technomagic required to decrypt what they were saying. “If this entity thinks we're going to try and use this tunnel, it might decide it's best to kill both of us.”
“Perhaps,” Ondo replied, “but it hasn't done so yet. I think it's confused about us. Whoever placed these objects under its care clearly assumed the time would come for them to be released, or else why go to so much trouble? The same may be true of the Coronade structures; they also haven't been wiped from the face of the galaxy. I think that's because, someday, it was thought they might be needed.”
“You don't know they haven't been destroyed. You want to think there's something active on Coronade, I get it, but there may not be,
