Kensa Aldrich glared at the screen full of data in front of her. The system was filled with endless bytes of data, but effectively it was completely empty of everything that she needed to know.
Her ship performed for her as she performed for Eks Corp, gathering data and passing it on to those who could turn it into a direction to move. The problem was that the information it was providing wasn't the data she needed, or had at all expected. She'd already passed on what little information they had, in the hope that her very lack of useful information would be useful information for someone else.
Two different vessels had vanished right in front of her, including the one that carried Brendan's new bride. That one was her own fault. She'd known from the beginning that the legendary genius of her own childhood, who had uncharacteristically agreed to meet the girl, could evade the Traffic System.