Chapter Nineteen
After leaving the problem of the intelligent thread creatures in the lake with Vasquez and Kes—promising to meet up with Kes the following day—Cariad grabbed a take-away dinner from the refectory and went to her cabin, tired and sleepy. She’d been finding it hard to sleep in the strange room at the Leader’s residence, partly because she was planetside. She’d gotten used to sleeping aboard ship. The faint vibration of the ship’s engines was soothing.
Cariad comm’d Osias to update him on what Vasquez had said, then she ate her food. The next thing she did was check the position of Ethan’s flitter signal. Checking the satellite report had become like an itch she had to scratch. Each time she looked it up, she hoped to see that the flitter had moved. Each time she’d been dis
