All Our Tomorrows by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hypernova Publishing
Published: 2021-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

Alex made a show of peering around at the shelves and cabinets in the lab. “I don’t see any wine goblets.”

“Very funny.”

“Alas. For science, then. Are we ready?”

Nika touched her shoulder. “That’s our cue to vacate the premises so we don’t interfere with the test. Dashiel and I will be a few hundred meters away at the gelato shop in the atrium. Message me when it’s safe for us to return.”

“Will do.” Nika and Dashiel exited the lab, leaving her, Kennedy, Noah, and two techs to whom Noah was quietly issuing some instructions. She shrugged at Kennedy. “So what do I do?”

Kennedy gestured to the control panel. “The machine is set up to send the harmonic resonance wave to the Reor. All you need to do is press the button to send it.”

“And the goal is for the Reor to let loose of its protection of the kyoseil filaments so the needle pliers can extract them?”

“It is. When I run the machine—when any of multiple humans run the machine—the Reor just sits there giving us a raspberry.”

She chuckled at the imagery, glanced around, then unceremoniously reached out and pressed the signal button.

A screen above the enclosure magnified the image of one of the kyoseil filaments encased in the Reor. As they watched, the deep green mineral surrounding the fiber appeared to lose some of its solidity. The kyoseil filament…wiggled? Yes, it clearly wiggled, testing out the limits of its now more spacious suit of armor. One of the needle pliers maneuvered into place and reached out to grasp the tiny end of the filament that had been exposed by the ever-so-slightly melted mineral. It got a hold of it and pulled.

Nothing gave way.

“Send it again.”

Alex frowned but complied. The mineral surrounding the filament definitely softened further. The plier tugged, and the filament slid out a centimeter or so, then seemed to get stuck again.

She was about to send the signal a third time when the Reor surrounding the filament dissolved into an almost gelatinous state. The plier continued its work, and within a few seconds it had extracted a thirty-centimeter length of kyoseil.

“Am I missing all the fun?”

She spun around as Caleb crossed the lab to sidle up beside her. “Um….” She stared at him for a minute, followed by the Reor slab.

“What? Did I interrupt something?”

She and Kennedy exchanged a squirrelly look. “Is it you?”

“Is what me?”

“We were trying to get the Reor to give up its kyoseil prize. For me, it appeared to be considering the possibility but hadn’t committed yet. When you walked in, the Reor melted like butter.”

Caleb peered at the half-liquified Reor slab in the enclosure. “That doesn’t make any sense. I don’t have anything to do with kyoseil.”

“You were with me in the Oneiroi Nebula when the mega-Reor colony gave me my slab.”

“But you’ve used the slab plenty of times to read data when I wasn’t anywhere nearby.”

“True.” She ignored the quiet pang of resentment that flared in the back of her mind. It

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