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long before Cade had uncoupled the transport pod
from the command module and doubled its speed toward Dr. Hammersmith's
coordinates.
    "Who
was that guy?" the official's hushed voice broke the silence. He held the
bloody pulse pistol aimed at Eyan but there was nothing committal about his
posture. His gaze hadn't left the two men on the floor.
    She
gripped onto her console and disabled the thrusters—and with them, the
artificial gravity. The official cursed as his slate and borrowed weapon
suddenly drifted beyond his grasp, his limbs flailing spastically as he rose
into the air. She watched him, feeling her insides rebel, demanding to drift
free.
    But
she remained standing.
    Not
floating curled into a fetal position, hoping for another lifetime to come even
as the command module of the Futuro 2 Drilling Station rotated end over end
through the black in a slow dance by the light of the moon.
    Eyan
faced the future on her feet.

 
     
     
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    Milo James Fowler is a teacher by day and a speculative fictioneer by
night. When he's not grading papers, he's imagining what the world might be
like in a dozen alternate realities. He's an active SFWA member, and his short
fiction has appeared in AE SciFi , Cosmos , Daily Science
Fiction , Nature , and Shimmer . His novel Captain
Bartholomew Quasar and the Space-Time Displacement Conundrum is forthcoming
from Every Day Publishing.
     
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