Star Trek
“What are you doing?”
Ulrika Corsi turned with a start from an open dresser drawer, clutching a drab-colored sweater knit from Yridian yak wool. “Just helping you get settled. You can’t live out of a duffel bag for a week, after all.”
“I’ve only been here for an hour, Mom,” Corsi said. “You don’t need to cater to me like this.” Stepping farther into the room, she studied the arrangement of furniture and knickknacks that was all too familiar. On the uppermost shelf of a painted wooden bookcase re...sted the same trio of swim-meet trophies that her mother surely had been dusting for more than a decade. She glanced along a wall to find the same framed family portrait, a sepia-toned photograph of herself on Galor IV with her brother and parents, that had hung in similar proximity to the bookcase in probably half a dozen houses on half a dozen planets since it was taken. On the dresser near her mother, a large candle burned, wafting the scent of pine needles into the air.
Although Corsi had never set foot in this room, there was no mistaking this place as her room.MoreLess
Ulrika Corsi turned with a start from an open dresser drawer, clutching a drab-colored sweater knit from Yridian yak wool. “Just helping you get settled. You can’t live out of a duffel bag for a week, after all.”
“I’ve only been here for an hour, Mom,” Corsi said. “You don’t need to cater to me like this.” Stepping farther into the room, she studied the arrangement of furniture and knickknacks that was all too familiar. On the uppermost shelf of a painted wooden bookcase re...sted the same trio of swim-meet trophies that her mother surely had been dusting for more than a decade. She glanced along a wall to find the same framed family portrait, a sepia-toned photograph of herself on Galor IV with her brother and parents, that had hung in similar proximity to the bookcase in probably half a dozen houses on half a dozen planets since it was taken. On the dresser near her mother, a large candle burned, wafting the scent of pine needles into the air.
Although Corsi had never set foot in this room, there was no mistaking this place as her room.MoreLess
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