After oiling up Zircon I headed for the surface to catch up with Orchid to make sure she wasn't not bullying the lower castes into overworking. When I finally arrived to the surface the ground could not be seen as an ocean of hive bio-forms stretched to the horizon.
"Orchid, come here." I said aloud knowing I would not be able to find her link through the psionic noise around me. With Orchid being acutely aware of my presence at all times and she would hear me whisper her name through all the noise.
It still took a few minutes for her to get to me as she was inside one of the hundreds of void swimmers that were coming and going ferrying the bio-forms up to the larger hive ships. "You called for your Orchid, Apollo?" Orchid asked with a head tilt. "Yeah I was just wondering what was going on. Jewel said there was only going to be two ships as escort for me not 20 from what I can see." I asked gazing up into planets orbit
