Chapter 44
Madeline gazed at the control panel and its jumble of buttons and symbols. She figured some of the buttons functioned in a way similar to the ‘enter’ key on her computer keyboard back on Earth. And she recognized a delete button—in her terms, the ‘oops’ button.
She was pretty sure the control panel operated by voice recognition. She should be able to just tell it what she wanted.
She glanced at the bed. Her husband still slept. It’s not that he was a lazy sleepyhead—he was in something like a clinical state of mini-hibernation. The battles they had engaged in before arriving in Eudaiz had drained all of his natural energy, so his body now operated on a temporary artificial energy that recharged itself every night during sleep. In this universe, energy was more vital than bloo
