'We're Giving You a Second Chance' Summary

Again, through the satellite monitoring system, the M.D. device is detected and the fleet vanishes almost immediately thereafter. The message is clear. The fleet only came to destroy, never to negotiate. Some had hoped for a chance to show the fleet that the descolada had been tamed. Aboard Miro's ship, Firequencher begins keening when he receives news from a pequenino on Lusitania of its imminent destruction. Miro alerts Jane, who is entirely engaged in getting rescue ships off Lusitania. Jane almost breaks down herself, concerned that without the mothertrees she won't be able to function. Miro tells her to get control, that they have upwards of half an hour and suggests she push the M.D. device "outside." Jane says she dares not, that if the device detonates "outside" it may cause...