Chapter 23
Australia, 2876
Ascout ship lost to aliens? Time travelers from a hundred years in the future? Confirmation that the Galactics really were some sort of uber-smart aliens near the center of the galaxy? A conspiracy to send the Australia to a system, without telling them what had happened to the scout ship?
Helen stopped in the corridor outside her lab. Just stopped. Leaned back against the wall, her palms flat against the cool surface, and breathed. In and out.
Whatever she had ever said about deep space missions being boring, she took it back. This wasn’t boring. This was the crazy opposite of boring.
Studying the Cristobel data didn’t sound so bad now. And they did have those interesting symbiotic relationships that cropped up over and over in the Cristobel ecology. Symbio
