WILDER WAS FASCINATED by the Fila’s alternative deep space propulsion method. Desperate to figure out how it worked, she’d asked them many questions about it, only to receive enigmatic or nonsensical answers. The Fila said their ships ‘transformed’ or ‘broke into’ (they used the words interchangeably as if they meant the same thing) another kind of ‘space’ or another ‘place’ (again, both words seemed to have the same meaning when the Fila used them in that context).
While she tried to think of a question that might yield an answer she understood, Wilder sat in the cylindrical room with her face pressed up against the transparent wall that separated the humans from the watery abode of the Opportunity’s crew.
All she knew for sure was their vessels disappeared and reappeared. She seen the
