Chapter 22It would take ASHLEY about thirty minutes to cycle through and eject all the Owbs. That was far too long. Silver was sure that Kim would be following him, arriving any minute. The window for communication and consciousness transfer was shrinking, and with it, his own time aboard Droste as well.
Mahi’s and his own transfer had included the computer wizardry that guaranteed ASHLEY would defrost the receiving Slate, meaning there was likely no way to prevent Kim from doing the same.
Turning off the communication equipment to prevent Kim’s signal reaching the ship would sentence Silver to the same fate as Mahi. There would be no way to pin-point the tiny sphere of home at such vast distances and he was not ready to commit to a life in deep space, watched over by God.
Not yet, anyw
