Bred nodded glumly. He had not been in a very good mood since his talk with Tyla several days ago, and not even the rest of the crew had been able to cheer him up. If the talk with Johnathan had cut his sibling ties, that conversation with Tyla had cauterized the wound. For better or worse they were now entirely different people, and their past relationship was dead and buried.
“A ship just materialized from hyperspace,” Sora announced. “It’s a lot further out from Huntworld than we are, though.”
“Ten–to–one it’s the Hermes,” Vini said.
Tyla cursed under her breath, and even though so much hung in the balance, Bred couldn’t help smiling. “I guess it isn’t going to be quite as simple as we thought,” he said.
Tyla ignored him and turned to Nezla. “Com Jusser.”
Nezla sent out the standar
