“Let me see.” Nezla took over the position at the telescope. After a moment she found the dark spot in the field of view and watched it. “You’re right, they are spinnin’. I wonder if they hit somethin’; there couldn’t be any other reason for it.”
Luuj did not need further encouragement. Drone crept silently into the Vortex to meet its disabled mate. With the external sensors disconnected, she, like Johnathan, was flying blind into this cosmic storm. But she knew the direction she wished to take and could intersect Queen’s course closely enough for Nezla to reach it quickly with a line. Neither woman spoke as they chased down the damaged lifeboat.
They pulled to within twenty meters of Queen, and Luuj nodded to Nezla. The engineer took a line attached by one end to Drone’s side and starte
