While waiting for the engineer to arrive, Jas switched on the hologram of K. 67092d. She recalled the last view she’d had of the image, when Loba had been quizzing her as to why she wouldn’t give the all-clear to Resource Assess the surface. That moment seemed like a long time ago.
A cough caught her attention. MacAdam had arrived and was waiting in the doorway. Jas had a feeling it was the second time she’d coughed.
“Thanks for coming. Sit down.”
The woman took a seat on the other side of the horizontal screen that displayed the spinning globe. Jas switched it off and took another seat. Everyone looked ill in the ghostly emergency light, but the engineer looked particularly bad. Her cheeks and eyes were hollow and shadowed. Jas could almost make out the shape of her bony skull beneath
