What tracks can water hold?
Coming from a species of fliers, Koriand'r is accustomed to considering the currents of air as she travels. The differences in temperatures rarely matter to her, but on Earth she quickly learned to avoid the currents carrying pollutants or noxious smells.
Water currents, she tells herself, are not so different. More importantly, after studying one of the maps Lt. Farrow gave them at the briefing, she now believes she understands why the Pacific shipping lanes run as they do, and why the attacks are clustered thus.
"X'hal, the size of this ocean," she murmurs. They cannot simply hope to wander the shipping lanes and stumble upon these pirates. Much as she itches to fly a search pattern now, she has learned something of that human quality, patience: especially when she remembers the lessons of the Warlords of Okaara on how sometimes even righteous anger is not the best weapon to use.
Water currents, she tells herself, are not so different. More importantly, after studying one of the maps Lt. Farrow gave them at the briefing, she now believes she understands why the Pacific shipping lanes run as they do, and why the attacks are clustered thus.
"X'hal, the size of this ocean," she murmurs. They cannot simply hope to wander the shipping lanes and stumble upon these pirates. Much as she itches to fly a search pattern now, she has learned something of that human quality, patience: especially when she remembers the lessons of the Warlords of Okaara on how sometimes even righteous anger is not the best weapon to use.