Legacies [antikvár]

"YOU ARE GOING BACK." "I hope for your sake-and ours-that what you find is less terrible than what we have imagined. We activated an untried stardrive too close, too soon. Our leaving may have destroyed our homeworld." The green eyes stared into Lian's for another moment, and then faded. Lian walked forward to where the image had been. Around him, sources and detectors kindled. Blue lines flickered across his clothing. Blue light brushed his eye. He discarded all the sentences he had so painstakingly assembled. He said only, "I go in ... hope."