The Duke of Uranium
“Then once they rerun the pizo check on the missing people, they’ll start looking for the moment-to-moment record, and see if they can find what happened where the missing person last was. But once it’s been this long, the news is never good.”
Jak looked from face to face of all the people around him. Every one of them was nodding; apparently everything the girl was saying was toktru. He and the girl floated there, treading air to station-keep in the microgravity that shifted quickly because they were so close to both the sun and Mercury. They had nothing to say, but they did have a terrible need for company. Ten more minutes crawled by. In all the huge space, with everyone floating idly, there was hardly a word spoken; many people were quietly staring at some surface near themselves, breathing deeply, getting ready for the news.
Jak worried that he wouldn’t respond right, would interfere with their grief by not feeling or expressing it in the way the spaceborn did. He wasn’t afraid ...of being rudeUncle Sib had schooled him too well for that but he did fear that he would intrude, would just not fit in, because it would be obvious that he couldn’t grieve for someone he didn’t know.MoreLess
Jak looked from face to face of all the people around him. Every one of them was nodding; apparently everything the girl was saying was toktru. He and the girl floated there, treading air to station-keep in the microgravity that shifted quickly because they were so close to both the sun and Mercury. They had nothing to say, but they did have a terrible need for company. Ten more minutes crawled by. In all the huge space, with everyone floating idly, there was hardly a word spoken; many people were quietly staring at some surface near themselves, breathing deeply, getting ready for the news.
Jak worried that he wouldn’t respond right, would interfere with their grief by not feeling or expressing it in the way the spaceborn did. He wasn’t afraid ...of being rudeUncle Sib had schooled him too well for that but he did fear that he would intrude, would just not fit in, because it would be obvious that he couldn’t grieve for someone he didn’t know.MoreLess
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