Launch Pad by Shelly Bryant

Author:Shelly Bryant
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-981-47-8521-1
Publisher: Epigram Books
Published: 2019-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

Lacuna sat beside Shi in the hovercraft. Both droids were silent, processing what they had just witnessed.

Standing on the lip of the chasm the earthquake had opened up, they were confronted with hundreds 98 SHELLY BRYANT Scylla and Charybdis 99 of thousands of canisters, each labelled Cryogenically Preserved Genetic Materials. Lacuna had ordered a few to be lifted out of the ground for further inspection.

When they opened the first, Shi said, “Good thing I’m a droid, or that would make my stomach heave.”

“Yeah,” Lacuna agreed. He squatted for a closer look, not quite daring to touch the thing.

“Is it supposed to be human?” Shi asked.

“The information logged into the chip on top says this is the DNA of a Mrs Batthathiri. If there’s not been a mistake in the labelling, this was grown from the woman’s DNA.” Lacuna turned the cover of the canister towards Shi. The image on the screen was that of a pretty young woman with long, curly hair. As they stared, the image rotated, showing her in profile.

“That thing looks nothing like Mrs Batthathiri,” Shi said.

“No, it doesn’t look like her,” Lacuna agreed.

“What happened?”

“My guess is that the cryos didn’t function properly and the code in the DNA was damaged,” Lacuna said.

“But why did it turn into that?”

“I’m not sure,” Lacuna said. “But it looks like she’s not the only one.”

Shi turned to look at the rest of the canisters filling the area opened up by the earthquake. “You mean you think they’re all like that?” he asked.

“I’m sure of it,” Lacuna said.

“How can you be sure?”

“Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be out here in the middle of nowhere. They would be stored properly in the world’s finest labs.”

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