They knew they had returned home seconds before Commander confirmed it.
“Sikasian Galaxy dead ahead. Estimated time of arrival to Synaria in one hour, fourteen minutes, twelve seconds. Damn, Hunter!” The man reached over to give the pilot a grateful squeeze on the arm.
Damn, Disaster let out a noisy breath. “How freaky is that? Where were we that it only took us a few hours to get back? I mean, I’ve been a Guardian for nearly nine years. I thought I’d been through every neighborhood system by this time. If we were that close, why didn’t the ship have any record of our location?”
“Maybe for the same reason our hyper light clock has been frozen since we woke up,” Commander commented. “Look here. It’s still registering the same time it did when we arrived at Adni Pul Dinarra. But look h
