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Cryovox was a cold blue planet in the short arm of the Rah Galaxy. A planet with no moon, it was a literally an ice ball. Citizens lived in heated dome cities on the planet’s surface, with tunnels that stretched under the ice.
Keltie watched as the planet rolled up on the rescue ship like a blue agate marble in the middle of space.
Michiko sat next to her, eating reconstituted chicken noodle soup from a can. She clanged the can with her spoon.
“It's such an iceball of a planet, isn't it?” Michiko asked. “I wonder what it would be like to live there. No sun. No moon. Pretty boring.”
“Yeah,” Keltie said.
“Have you been there?” Michiko asked.
“Many times,” Keltie said.
“Ooh, what's it like?” Michiko asked.
Keltie knew this place.
Spent a lot of time here when she was training for
