Remembering something she’d read before embarking on her voyage, she muttered, “A choice is better than a voice.”
Ping leaned over to hear better. “What was that?”
Dash shook her head. “Just an old quote from some of the people who did the early work preparing the way for the building of the BrainTrust.”
As they moved through the rooms, Dash kept up a running explanation of what they were seeing. At one point Ping whispered to Jam, “She knows more than the museum does. She’s not learning anything, so why are we here again?”
Jam whispered back. “Because she enjoys teaching as much as she enjoys learning. We are her friends. Be her student for today. She needs it.”
“Uh huh.”
They came into the room with another large glassed-in model ship, the GPlex I herself. Built to same scale as th
