He nodded. "Handicap Haven is leaving the Solar System."
Her fingers flew and molded the beautiful curve of a jaw where there had been none. Next, plastissue lips were applied.
Nona was soon hiding in half a hundred places.
And one more....
he orbit of Neptune was far behind and still the asteroid was accelerating. Two giant gravital units strained at the core of Handicap Haven. The third clamped an abnormally heavy gravity on the isolated world. Prolonged physical exertion was awkward and doubly exhausting. Hours turned into a day, but the units never faltered.
"Have you figured it out as precisely as you should?" asked Docchi easily. "You share our velocity away from the Sun. You'll have to overcome it before you can start going back."
The general ignored him. "If we could only turn off that damned drive!"