Chapter Twenty-Six
October 2, 2230, Solar System, En Route to Earth, Aboard Argo
Jia lay back on the bed in their cabin, a data window floating above her. Her PNIU was transmitting the sound directly to her ear, letting Erik slumber in peace behind her. She wanted to sleep too, but this time she couldn’t blame it on circadian rhythms as much as her paranoid mind working overtime. Alina and the ID were working on processing the information Emma had forwarded, but Jia couldn’t shake the feeling they might already be too late.
Now that they were so close to Earth, she could get near-real-time Terran news feeds. She didn’t expect the Core to announce anything over the news, but there might be a clue hidden among the relentless noise of the so-called news.
The feed started, the chyron makin
