Chapter Three
After the women had left, a heavy silence hung over the bridge.
Aliz had turned her attention to the controls.
“Is that Yonta always such a handful?” Tina asked.
“She has a bit of a reputation of being a b***h at the docks,” Aliz said.
Evelle said, “But she is very good at her job. Highly competent. She has earned her right to be a b***h. I would never dismiss what she said out of hand.”
“I don’t dispute that. It’s just that she seems to be deliberately stirring the pot.”
Tina very much didn’t want to mention words like disobedience and disrespect, but in the time she’d been at Project Charon, behaviour like Yonta’s would have earned someone a stern warning.
Evelle said, “I still wouldn’t discount what she says.”
“What about other people’s feelings towards her? Are t
