Mach's Legacy by D W Patterson

Author:D W Patterson [Patterson, D W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Future Chron Publishing
Published: 2019-09-08T06:00:00+00:00

The rescue ships had gotten Dag and the others off the Centauri United and left a repair ship there to try to bring the crippled ship home. Only half of the twenty-four member crew were still alive.

When the rescue ship docked Emmy was there. She had gotten quite fond of Dag over the years, she considered him part of her extended family. She met him at the bottom of the endcap that held the docking port.

“Dag, it's good to see you. How are you?”

“I am fine Miss.”

They began walking to the electric that would take them back to the town nearest the university where Dag would stay until he left for Centauri Two.

“I wanted to talk to you about that Dag. I would like you to reconsider and stay here. I could use you here at the lab to help with my grandfather's experiment.”

“That's kind Miss. But I was thinking I might retire.”

“Retire?”

“Yes, I believe that's right. As your grandfather retired from the university. That kind of retirement.”

“Why Dag?”

“I seem to have reached an impasse. I have to admit that I've always felt myself superior to humans in certain ways. But now I've found it isn't so. There may be other things I need to discover about myself before I'm put in such a position again.”

“You don't blame yourself for what happened do you?”

“I lost focus for a moment. Otherwise I believe we would have been successful. I wouldn't have believed it possible but that is what happened.”

“Dag none of us know ourselves until we are put into those defining moments. And if we don't live up to our idea of ourselves then it can be quite discouraging. I know, I failed the first time I was given the responsibility of running the skyrmion experiment without my grandfather.

“You heard I released a skyrmion into the habitat by accident?”

“No Miss I hadn't heard.”

“Yes it happened. I was lucky no one was hurt and there was little damage. But it could have been much worse. Afterwards, I think I was feeling the same way you are now.”

“I don't know Miss. I've never thought about feelings before. I mean my brain imprint is human so it is not outside the realm of possibility.”

“Feelings, glitches, whatever you want to call it. We seem to have had the same experience. I understand your longing to go back to Centauri Two. I feel the same way. But I don't think grandfather would have quit and I don't want to quit. And I hope you will not quit. You would be very useful in getting this experiment to work. And I think it could help us master these plasma globes that the Beleni keep launching at us.”

“Well I could stay a few days Miss if it would be of help to you.”

“It would Dag, it would a great deal,” said Emmy with a smile.

Dag did not follow Emmy to the lab right away, he waited a few days to see how Captain Arley would be after his surgeries.

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