The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton

Author:Emily Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Kaleisha Reid: Hi, Dad. So, we’ve got a new plan. It’s going to sound crazy—or maybe it’s not, no more so than everything else I’ve told you, anyway. I’m going to fold space so we can move faster than light.

Cleo McQueary: Did you hear that? Faster than light, make sure that gets in the papers—

Kaleisha Reid: [Laughter] Hush. Billie—Captain Lucas—thinks I might be able to get us to Proxima Centauri in a matter of months, meaning we’d be home by next Christmas rather than a decade and a half from now. So, obviously, that’s a good thing. But it does mean that this will be my last message that’s able to reach you.

Ros Wheeler: [whispering] Fuck.

Kaleisha Reid: We’ve got everything we need. The ship is running well. The plants are doing great, better than we ever expected.

Abraham Yang: The cookies that the replicator makes aren’t anywhere near as good as yours!

Kaleisha Reid: Seconded. Point is, Dad, we’re going to be okay. I love you so much. I miss you so much. I’ll take a picture of this other planet and send it to you, even though it’ll get home after we do, because I’ll be thinking of you so hard when we look at that alien sun.

Cleo McQueary: Also, um. If anyone has, like, I don’t know, gotten in touch with my own dad, could you let him know—you know, if he’s paying attention or whatever—that I’m alright, I guess. Ahh okay bye.

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