Chapter 8
It was cold outside the hospital, and her skintight jumpsuit didn’t really help to keep her warm. She checked her wrist unit to see if she had enough credits for a call to Iilos. She knew that every wrong turn she had made while using the inter-universe transport had cost her a lot of credits. But she hadn’t planned on it costing almost everything in her account. She had only enough credits to make either a call to Iilos or the job bank.
The short-term solution was to call Cooper and ask him to lend her some credits. The longer term plan was to call the job bank, take a small job, and earn the credits herself. One the one hand, if she called and couldn’t reach Cooper, she would be doomed. One the other hand, the job bank wouldn’t guarantee her a job, and if she couldn’t take wh
