Brendan gazed at the urgent message that had just arrived from his sister and silently repressed the urge to leap uselessly to his feet, as she admitted, "I have lost your bride."
He reviewed it again from the beginning. An unidentified ship had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, and the station that Rafaela had been aboard had apparently been hit by some kind of weapon. Kensa didn't give any useful description of the weapon, or even swear that she was certain it had actually been a weapon, to his confusion. However, she swore to the fact that the oversized ship had then launched itself away from its stationary position, faster than most courier ships in the system could move.
