6/30/2023 0 Comments Books like perilous waif![]() Then he closed the hatch, and ran us through a decontamination cycle before we headed back to the bridge. I followed Captain Sokol back to the airlock, where he handed off the carrying cases to a surprisingly normal-looking bot. I wasn’t that sure about trusting Beatrice yet, even if she and the captain did seem to be pretty close. I’d tell the captain, if he asked about it. Should I tell him about the private com call? The shuttle’s systems would have logged it, but there’s no way anyone else would be able to make sense of that data stream.ĭid I want Beatrice to know I could follow that kind of conversation? If my natural thought speed was that fast I’d pass off the message management to a chatbot or something. That probably wasn’t even Sleuth on the com. More like, doesn’t enjoy waiting millions of microseconds for every reply. “It doesn’t talk much, so you have to pay attention to details like that.”ĭoesn’t talk much. “Guess that means both of them,” the captain said. ![]() ![]() “Agreed,” the emotionless voice of the human-speed comlink said. I hadn’t even realized I could run that fast. I looked around, and realized that the whole conversation had taken less than a millisecond. I will examine the damage, and determine whether repairs are feasible. ![]() Opportunities for mutually beneficial exchange are highly probable. “My temporal discount rate is vanishingly low, Alice Long. ![]() I don’t know what favors I could do for someone like you, but if you’ll help me with this I’ll owe you a big one.” ![]()
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