MicroP by Jones Pauline Baird

Author:Jones, Pauline Baird [Jones, Pauline Baird]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0BLXRSW5J
Goodreads: 75415304
Publisher: Pauline Baird Jones
Published: 2023-05-18T07:00:00+00:00

Since Remi was already strapped in, all she could do was brace herself as the ship dropped back into real space.

Only this real space was inside the cloud of gases and dust that had baffled her people for so long.

And the transition out was as bumpy as the one going in.

Her head ached and her jawline throbbed from being clenched for too long. The shaking had eased some and she’d thought it was because the ship’s stabilizers had caught up with conditions.

Now she figured it was because they’d traversed a less bumpy section of the cloud.

The sensor data the ship was producing now was fascinating. She’d have loved to study it, if not for the little problem of the rogue heading for her home.

“Do we have a fix on the rogue yet?” she asked. She thought maybe she was starting to understand Mic, at least a little.

He’d been a robot, possibly for a long time. That kind of made her brain hurt to think about, but on the other side of that thought was a sense that being human was very new to him.

He wasn’t silent to be annoying, but because he wasn’t used to talking. That seemed a reasonable assumption. She’d seen him struggle to answer her questions and the relief that would follow a spate of words.

She believed that his struggle hadn’t been about coming up with a story, but because some of the truth was painful.

He’d already lost his people and didn’t know how to find them.

So far she felt he was shy, strong, brave, and very good-looking—which wasn’t relevant. But he was. He also had ethics and compassion.

He’d come out of something awful, and he’d managed not to be that broken by it. Perhaps honed by it was the right description.

Eero had been horrified at the thought of her going off alone with an alien. He’d visibly shuddered at the thought of how alien Mic was with his cybernetics.

He hadn’t been able to see past those to a man who was trying to help them at great personal cost.

And she had noticed he hadn’t offered to go with them, since he was of no use on the space station.

If he’d been able to think it through without the panic, he might have realized that being on this ship might be safer than anywhere else in the system.

“I am beginning to receive data from the rogue,” Bacon said.

“Send it to her other screen,” Mic said.

Remi was glad she still had her view on the cloud. Lines of data ran down the side, giving the composition of the gases and dust, and showed the patterns of movement.

Not that she didn’t know the movement was enough to keep their ride bumpy.

The rogue was less willing to give up data.

It was round. It was big, not as big as its target, Seladon, but it didn’t need to be. It was the force of the hit that was the problem.

“It doesn’t need to be that big,” Remi muttered.

“No, it doesn’t,” Mic said.

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