“Amazing.” The image was slowly turning, rotating around its axis. No—Wemm station was moving. I couldn’t tell how far away the Veldt was, but if it would be more than one star it had to be millions of kilometers off.
A familiar thrill tickled the back of my neck. Inside Wemm Station’s steel walls I might have been in an industrial complex. Even the fight in the Hub could have happened in a terrestrial airplane.
But gazing out at the Veldt, I suddenly felt myself in an alien universe.
“We don’t understand our own universe,” Habre said. “But here at Wemm Station, we have learned much. The earliest days of our universe are so different from our own, that just being here, now, we learn something every day. Our few months of learning have rewritten textbooks. It might even lead to faster-th
