Chapter Twenty-One
Cariad had gone to speak to the Guardians who were constructing the pulse emitter on the upper surface of the Nova Fortuna. It had been quite a trek to reach them. She’d been forced to climb the networks of lines and ladders that Giesen and Florian had fixed throughout the ship in order to move from one side to the other.
She wasn’t particularly fit, and the feat was testing her strength, but she was lonely and wanted someone to speak to face to face, even if that someone was an android. Kes was spending every waking moment he had speaking with the fila. He seemed obsessed with finding out all he could about them, and they seemed equally curious about humans. It was to be expected, of course, and Cariad would be the last person to blame a scientist for being passionate
