Some of the excitement left Jess as he absorbed the information properly. It wouldn’t save Ali, but it would keep her safe, keep her body from harm. If there was any part of her left, and if that part had any awareness of the horrific situation she was in, then it would spare her from suffering any longer.
More information about the Taint flowed into Jess, further dampening his enthusiasm. He’d come to think of the Wanderer as something amazing, something far beyond any other ship. He viewed whoever had first created the Wanderer in the same light. Their technology was thousands of years ahead of anything else he had seen.
But they had no way to cure someone who was Tainted. The best they could manage was containment. Despite their amazing technology they’d found no way to purge t
