Chapter 20
Jo spat the black liquid she’d thought was coffee back into the mug and put the mug back on the console of her control station. The dim light from the sky dome seeped through the semi-transparent ceiling and reflected on the polished floor and the shiny computer monitors on the wall. She normally preferred monitors to wallpaper, but at the moment, it seemed a little too much for her. She’d been staring at the monitors for so long that her eyes felt like they were bleeding.
She needed some caffeine to jolt her system. She had to catch up on her research for the job at hand—being Sciphil Four—a position that made her responsible for more than a hundred billion civilians in her district.
Jo considered herself a good computer designer. On Earth, as the Steel Princess, she was unb
