“HI CARIAD,” RENE SAID. “I haven’t seen you in ages. What have you been up to?”
Cariad had gone directly to the soil lab when she arrived aboard the colony ship, but now that she’d arrived, she wasn’t sure how to ask her friend about the lesion that Dr. Montfort had discovered on her. “Hi, Rene. Umm... Could I speak to you in private?”
“Ooooh, sounds serious,” Rene replied. “How about we go outside?”
The ship’s corridor wasn’t the ideal place to accuse a friend of being a murderer and a terrorist, thought Cariad, but it would do for a preliminary conversation. “Yeah, that would be good.” Rene followed her out of the lab. The corridor was mercifully empty, yet the fact didn’t seem to improve Cariad’s feelings of awkwardness. “So, how are you doing?”
When Cariad had come out of cryonic s
