NightPiercer by Merry Ravenell

Author:Merry Ravenell [Ravenell, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734041637
Publisher: 9 Swords
Published: 2019-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

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“And this is why they worried about astronauts going nuts on long space voyages,” she said, legs crossed and gripping her ankles as she rocked back and forth while she watched the large monitor.

She’d found some old stash of space documentaries from the early 2000s that some Omega with a sick sense of humor had added to the archives. In fact, NightPiercer’s archives had large quantities of out-of-date documentaries. “Who curated this stuff?”

According to history, there’d been some limitations on what had been uploaded since storage space hadn’t been infinite. Apparently NightPiercer’s curators had thought someone would enjoy old, out-of-date documentaries talking about what planets or space would be like.

She’d started with the documentaries on Jupiter.

“Not even close,” she said, staring at the “true color” image of Jupiter an early space probe had sent back. In the pictures it looked like a glass marble. From where she sat, it churned and seethed and consumed itself, a failed star trying over and over and over again to start fusion.

She glanced at the door, itching with the desire to get the hell out of the quarters.

“Documentaries aren’t that bad,” she muttered. The Science & Nature section also had many, many documentaries on ancient Earth history, landmarks, geology, animals… looking at the last accessed time and view counts, nobody watched those. She’d watched five minutes of a documentary on a massive canyon (aptly named “The Grand Canyon”) and another five minutes on massive land mammals called hippos before she’d gone back to science and space documentaries.

The door to the quarters opened.

“What are you doing?” Rainer inquired, taking in her sitting on a couch cushion, cross-legged, on the hemp rug, glued to the screen.

“Watching old documentaries from the safety and security of my guppy bowl,” she said, annoyed.

He was filthy and grimy, with some kind of black-green grease in his hair and smeared down the arm and leg of his uniform. He stank of burned wires and sweat. He disappeared for a shower.

He better not have forgotten or lied to her.

Rainer returned about half an hour later, this time dressed in not much. Just shorts and a light short-sleeved shirt. He was a sculpted specimen. She checked herself. Rainer’s nose was too sharp, and his ego already big enough.

Rainer poured himself a drink.

“Are you going to make me beg, or did you forget?” she asked tartly. “You made me a promise last night. I shouldn’t have to beg you to keep it.”

“Since my smell offends you, I thought you would prefer me washed,” Rainer said. With his free hand he rummaged around in the bottom of his satchel. He produced her daisy-chain gizmo and datachips. “I retrieved these from Tech.”

He’d promised her a purpose, not what already belonged to her! “You’re giving me my property back and think that’s how you keep your promise?”

He fished out two more datachips. “No, this is how I keep my promise.”

She eyed the chips. “Keep talking.”

“This one,” he flicked his fingers skillfully, somehow shifting the reddish chip to the front of his grip, “is a raw data dump from the shuttle’s computer core.

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