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Stranded Chapter One –––––––– * * * * JAS WAS WATCHING HAGGARDY in his cell, looking for signs of alien possession. The man was eating his rations, hunched over a plate as he sat on his bunk, and Jas was looking through one of the clear cubes in the wall, set to observation mode so that he wouldn’t know she was there. The former first mate had been in the brig a couple of days, but Jas was no closer to figuring out whether he was infected with an alien, or if he was just the same play-it-safe Haggardy she’d always known and not particularly liked. When the rest of the Galathea’s officers had been infected on K. 67092d, Haggardy had been with them, there was no doubt about that. He’d admitted as much himself, but he maintained that he’d managed to avoid the other officers’ fate. All th