IT HAD TAKEN CARIAD some time to figure out what to do about Cherry’s revelation. The moment the words had left the Gen’s lips, certain facts from the investigation suddenly began to make more sense. When Strongquist had pointed out to Cariad that only someone who had an understanding of the structure of a shuttle could have placed a bomb right next to the fuel tank, she’d suspected the saboteur was a Gen who worked on or in the spacecraft. None of the other Gens were familiar with shuttles—the Nova Fortuna’s had been mothballed the entire trip. But all the Woken were at least vaguely familiar with standard shuttle structure after flying in them many times on Earth.
And then there was the fact that the saboteurs’ bombs were made from chemicals refined out of fertilizer. The process wouldn
