6. TorukThe Radiant Dragon was eerily quiet. Not so long ago, it had been filled with noise and movement: her, Ondo, Eb, Surtr, Hessia. Now she was alone again. She'd resented all the extra bodies, getting in her way, talking to her, but now she missed them.
Eb lay in his sanctum, his mind fully engaged with the movements through metaspace he had to make to safely approach the black hole. Their time together had been unexpected, but welcome. An interregnum of joy and affirmation snatched from the universe, something she'd needed without realising. The temptation to simply stay there, curled up with him, had been almost overwhelming.
Ondo, too, was cut off from her, lying along in the medsuite under heavy sedation. She'd thrown every investigative probe she could at his brain, to no avail
