6
Lying on the floor of the energy bay was an Information Specialistwho looked unlike any Information SpecialistI had seen so far. Same big round feet, body of tires stacked on each other, thin arms, round head, spectacles, and book bag. The big difference was that they were bright green rather than white. They lay on their side either asleep, unconscious, or possibly dead. The E-IPS crew were standing in an arc around the body, and they stepped back as I came closer and I knelt beside the BookWorm. I gently touched their wrist with a finger to see if they were warm or cold. They were warm. So not dead anyway. I opened a private comms channel.
“Akion, do you have a moment?”
“Sir.”
Akion was being formal, this was a bad sign. There had been some difficulties in agreeing how the Informat
