Chapter 4
I glared at the data crystal that dad gave me again. He’d kept this thing from us our entire lives! As a child, I would have loved to have had any token of our mother. When he gave Min hers she had stared at it like it was ‘fairy gold.’ Poor Min she actually remembered mom. My whole life she’d shared with me stories about our mother. Her memories were all I had because father refused to talk about mom.
The temptation to have Wilson ‘hack’ this thing was almost overwhelming. I stared at it a moment more before carefully putting it back in my pocket. No. I would wait. There would be every opportunity to explore its secrets once I got to Mars colony.
I rubbed my eyes to clear my head. The engineering reports just kept piling up. Repairs were finally almost complete on the statio
