KUIPER BELT—OGDEN ENTERPRISES“Thorpe,” Daphne said, “we need some help over here.”
In the almost magical way that he seemed able to appear whenever summoned, Thorpe’s holoimage took shape before Daphne’s desk in the domed office that she shared with Kimberly and Fredricks at the inner end of the Ogden cylinder. eMax’s holoimage showed up at the same time.
“What’s up, Girl?” he asked almost casually.
Daphne looked him over, still feeling the old pain that with Thorpe it was look, don’t touch. eDaphne, who remained not visible, whispered in her ear, “I wish I could share my melding with him—even just once.”
Daphne flipped her hair out of her face and got down to business. “We’ve developed a methodology for sequencing our DNA snatches over time and keeping up with current demand for actua
