Final Battle (2012)
“It was my voice speaking, not a robot’s voice. I wasn’t seeing through a robot’s video lenses in New York or in Arizona or on the Moon. I was seeing through my eyes, the ones that had been blindfolded to make my robot control easier.
“Nate?” Here on the small space station in orbit, my strapped-down body was helpless. “Nate?”
The part I didn’t like about coming out of robot control was the waiting and wondering in the darkness and silence. I was totally dependent on Nate, the only other person ...aboard the small space station.
“Nate?”
What if he didn’t answer? What if something had happened to him? What if he’d somehow died? I’d be strapped in place with no way to move my hands. No way to remove the headset or blindfold. I’d be trapped until I, too, died.
“Nate?” My heartbeat thudded in my ears. But that was the only sound I heard. “Nate?”
Seconds later he pulled my headset off. Then my blindfold.
“Sorry,” he said as he began to unstrap me. “I was at the station’s telescope.MoreLess
“Nate?” Here on the small space station in orbit, my strapped-down body was helpless. “Nate?”
The part I didn’t like about coming out of robot control was the waiting and wondering in the darkness and silence. I was totally dependent on Nate, the only other person ...aboard the small space station.
“Nate?”
What if he didn’t answer? What if something had happened to him? What if he’d somehow died? I’d be strapped in place with no way to move my hands. No way to remove the headset or blindfold. I’d be trapped until I, too, died.
“Nate?” My heartbeat thudded in my ears. But that was the only sound I heard. “Nate?”
Seconds later he pulled my headset off. Then my blindfold.
“Sorry,” he said as he began to unstrap me. “I was at the station’s telescope.MoreLess
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