They had an hour to complete the run-up to the jump point. Once all three ships were on matching vectors, Hessia made the EVA hop across the gap to the Dragon to fill everyone in on what she'd discovered. Surtr drifted over from his ship, too. Selene had the cartography deck set up as a war room, four seats arranged around a table for her, Ondo, Hessia and Eb. There were no chairs large enough for Surtr, and it stood instead, towering over the four of them. Eb looked exhausted as he entered the room. He'd taken to wearing simple, body-length robes, but the skin of his face was an ashen grey. He sat with his eyes shut, and waved his hand in a way that suggested he was okay, they should continue.
Hessia activated the imagery projectors. A high-level display of the galaxy appeared; the famil
