Darak stayed on the bridge throughout, knowing that the information they’d obtained was too important to not give their escape his full attention. As soon as Agnor was free, Darak asked him to send a priority message via telepathy—untraceable and impossible to intercept—to Darak’s uncle, Vizier Brandon. Darak took a few minutes to compose the message he wanted to Agnor to send and then sent it to Ag’s console. Darak saw Agnor read it, then sit up straight as if he’d received an electrical shock. Agnor then turned wide eyes on Darak, a million questions in his astute gaze as he looked from Darak to Jana and back again. Darak only nodded. “Send the message, Ag,” Darak ‘pathed privately to his friend and first officer. “I don’t want to talk about it yet in front of Jana. She’s been through a hell of a lot, and I don’t want to add any pressure just now. I’ll tell you what I can as we fill in Uncle Brandon.” What followed was a solid hour of Agnor acting as telepathic go-between for Darak with his uncle back on Geneth Mar.
