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The doctor injected Shadow with a single nanite and prescribed a day of low activity while the healing happened unseen inside of Shadow’s body. Then he played with the dog for far longer than he had taken for diagnosis and treatment, gently tussling with him and rolling him over to scratch his belly.
Scout wondered if this was still going to be the norm in galactic central, that her dogs would charm the pants off of everyone they met. Why did no one in space ever have dogs?
The door chimed, and Caleb signaled for it to open. Sparrow was standing outside, Gert sitting close at her side.
“Emilie and Geeta are going to be staying in the intensive care wing, but I was wondering if you would like to walk the dogs around? I can give you a tour of the ship,” she said.
“Shadow can walk sho
