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From the Cryovox Space Port, Grayson and Eddie watched as the GGC Horizon lifted off and rocketed upward, out of the chilly airlock dome, toward space.
They waved.
“Mission’s a go, now,” Grayson said.
Eddie watched the ship twinkle into the stars.
Hard to believe the people he’d known for the last few days were gone now.
Gone to Gargantua.
And the plan.
It was in motion now, and he was playing a part in it.
He looked around the space port. The interior was shaped like a giant clamshell, with spaceships taking off and landing every few minutes. Icicles hung from the ceiling where the airlock doors opened and shut into space. Port workers in spacesuits maneuvered around, directing the ships into parking spaces. Brutal blasts of cold air rushed through the port every time an airlo
