Light
“Something was wrong with his signal. It had lost part of itself, or got mixed up with something else, some of the baroque matter of the universe, before it reached her. The fetch squatted in front of her tank for a full minute, fading in and out of view, then vanished. It was much smaller than she remembered from their previous dealings—a bundle of yellowish limbs barely bigger than a human head, crouching in what looked like a puddle of sticky liquid. Its skin had the shine of roasted poultry.... She wondered if that meant there was something wrong, not just with the signal but with the commander himself. She asked mathematics what it thought.
“Contact broken,” the mathematics said.
“For Christ’s sake,” Seria Mau told it, “I could work that out on my own.”
Over the next two days the apparition reappeared at intervals of a minute or two in different parts of the ship, caught by the drifting cameras as a brief subliminal flicker.MoreLess
“Contact broken,” the mathematics said.
“For Christ’s sake,” Seria Mau told it, “I could work that out on my own.”
Over the next two days the apparition reappeared at intervals of a minute or two in different parts of the ship, caught by the drifting cameras as a brief subliminal flicker.MoreLess
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