"Proximity alert," the station AI, a dusty voice synthesizer named VERA, intoned. "Structural integrity of Airlock Delta compromised. External sensors... offline."
“That depends,” Rafian said. He wanted to ask how she’d found him; Edge 51 hid people like shells hide pearls. Instead he asked the question he was built to ask: “What’s in the case?”
"Proximity alert," the station AI, a dusty voice synthesizer named VERA, intoned. "Structural integrity of Airlock Delta compromised. External sensors... offline."
“That depends,” Rafian said. He wanted to ask how she’d found him; Edge 51 hid people like shells hide pearls. Instead he asked the question he was built to ask: “What’s in the case?”