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CHERRY LOWERED HERSELF into her capsule. The last time she’d done this she’d been trapped in the awful gel that was supposed to protect them from the effects of the jump.
If they did jump.
Wilder and the other engineers did seem confident about their fix, but they’d been confident last time. She guessed they knew what they were doing.
She’d made sure to hug Wilder, Kes, and the girls and tell them she loved them. Similar potentially ‘forever’ goodbyes were taking place around the chamber. Tension thickened the atmosphere like the gel about to pump into her capsule. She’d caught Aubriot watching her as the goodbyes were going on. She’d quickly averted her gaze. He’d made his bed—with Maddox and most of the women on the ship—so he could lie in it.
She was aging much faster tha
