The little girl nodded silently, but he had the impression that she was thinking of something else.
“Are you sure you understand what I told you?” asked to her. She nodded again, and then raised her head to peer doubtfully at him.
“What would Mom say about all this?” she asked out of blue. He thought back to Ann’s words and the promises made to Nicole when she was dying; it seemed to him that he was falling apart.
“She’d say everything’s fine,” he replied without too much conviction.
“Identify yourself,” ordered the sentry at the entrance to the Research Center.
“Judas 1091, residence in the Fourth Quadrant. I was selected for the Temporary Hibernation Treatment,” he informed him in a compliant tone.
“Just in time, you really made us worry!” the soldier joked after consulting the ter
