Chapter 6: An Egg from Gondra
The only dragons of modern times were found on the planet Gondra by scouts who landed on that world’s sole island and confronted fifteen–meter–tall reptiloids. Needless to say, these intrepid explorers did not stop to pick any daisies on their hasty return to their twenty–meter–tall ship…
—Blaye Neeld
Dragons Real and Mythical
With the Honey B on its way to Gondra, shipboard life returned to normal. Watch duty in the Control Sector normally rotated among the four Flight Operations crewwomen; Johnathan volunteered to take his turn at it, too, reducing the burden on the others. There were the usual maintenance details: cooking, laundry, recycling, and general upkeep; Johnathan pitched in here, too. He was abnormally clumsy at these unaccustomed tasks, and hi
