"This is worth investigating," Aurelian said, looking at the trinary system Lysara had marked. "But not now. We deal with the expedition first."
Rhoswen looked disappointed, but only a little, because the word expedition still meant fighting.
Lysara nodded. "The route itself is not the problem. The only things we need to watch are the storms and the space beasts. The storms are not constant, and if we keep to the path I marked, they should not slow the fleet too much."
She shifted the map again, moving past the inner Mournveil systems and toward the far side of the nebula.
"I also checked the exit route," she continued. "The system closest to the Kharov cluster is quiet. No garrison fleet. No steady patrol. I didn't even see merchant movement."
The star system lit up near the edge of the map, sitting between the hidden Mournveil route and the larger Kharov-held four-star cluster beyond.
