Chapter Eighteen
Kes didn’t know how long he’d been working. He’d lost track of time. He’d thought that Isobel and Miki going to Suddene would bring him peace of mind, but the opposite was the case. When his wife and child had been only tens of meters away from him, it had been easy to reassure himself they were okay. Now their safety was a mental concept, not a physical fact. He didn’t regret their transfer to Suddene, but he knew he would never be comfortable until he was reunited with them, preferably before the baby came.
He comforted himself that, with the way things were going in the lab, his hope might be fulfilled. With the threat of the end of the colony hanging over them, the scientists were working faster and more efficiently than Kes had thought possible. Not only that, with
