Eve shrugged. “We’re not going anywhere. Aren’t you? You know?” She made a swooping motion with her hand. “Into space? Back to your people?”
To have it put to her so bluntly! “Well, yes. But…” She stammered. “Not right away. I wouldn’t dare take this old bucket into the wormhole nexus until I had given her a few trial runs. Especially after a century sitting out in the open. Would you like to go with me on a test flight?”
“Into space?” Eve stared at her, eyes wide. “Really?”
“Really.”
“Sign me up!” Ash grinned. “I dreamed about being an astronaut when I was a kid. But I knew that was always a pipe dream. Can we? Like, right now?”
Tezla smiled. “Sam, prepare for lift.”
Crossing through the door onto the flight deck felt like coming home. “Sit there and strap in,” she ordered, as two s
