Chapter 5In the cold of the hallway, Kim perfected their plan.
There were a lot of questions and a lot of information that needed to cross the interstellar void before it could reach them. The fifteen-hour time in between communications with ASHLEY and the Droste was not something that could be altered.
The distances involved in space travel were beyond comprehension. Kim thought about all the examples of scale used, such as “a million times around the world,” or even the speed of light, but truly, anything more than a twenty-mile view and the human mind struggled to process it. Frequent fliers, such as Foundation executives, would boast about traveling the world in a number of hours, but even that was an abstract.
Kim reminded themselves that nothing could move faster than the speed of
