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Unlike Daisy, there was nothing in particular that Scout wanted to see. She knew people who would be happy to see her, but no one she was as close to as she was to Daisy, Emilie, and the Malini sisters.
She wanted to think about the choice she was about to make, but she didn’t want to ask anyone’s advice about it. She just wanted to be alone, with her dogs, to think.
The first day she just kept the rover rolling over the prairie, bypassing all the towns.
When the sun started to set, she parked and let the dogs run and explore.
All day she had kept a nervous eye on the coronal mass ejection indicator, but it had never twitched. As she ate her dinner that night, she traded messages with her friends in space. They were busy, working with Rona and the governor and their own upper manag
