KUIPER BELT—OGDEN ENTERPRISES“Where are you headed with this?” Dale asked Daphne as he verified the operational installation of their dedicated Nanocosm into the lab complex at Ogden Enterprises in the Kuiper Belt.
“Simple,” she said. “We need to scale up from Max and Maxter. We need to program the Nanocosm for human microbiomes. That’s got to be an entirely different complexity than small felines like Max.”
Max rubbed her leg upon hearing his name. As a rule, Max remained close to Daphne. From time to time, he would show up in the oddest remote locations, and he clearly knew his way around the Solar System through the portal network. Daphne did not believe for a moment, however, that Max actually understood what happened when he walked through a portal. For him, it was just a doorway in
