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The receptionist looked at him. "Hal," she said, activating her touchscreen. "Last name?"
"Uh...." In nine years, Mike had never thought to ask. He saw that the receptionist was expecting an answer. "I... I don't know."
"You don't know your friend's last name?" The receptionist asked.
"We were always on a first name basis," said Mike. "He was the night watchman. Can't you look him up by that?"
The receptionist gave him an odd look. "Young man, there is no night watchman."
"No night watchman?" Mike thought rapidly. "No night shift operator?"
"Young man, the plant performs only automated tasks during the night shift. There is no staff at night." She became more and more suspicious by the minute. "I think you'd better go now." She reached out to press a button.
Mike got out of there.
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There was no night shift operator at Robolawya. Nor any night watchman.
Then who had Mike come to visit several times a week over the past nine years?
- COMMENTS
Anonymous8 months agoCouple of physics points - in Chapter 1 you mention the distressed ship was close enough to the sun to acquire mass...but mass is constantly there. Weight is an effect that would be created by the sun's gravity interacting with the mass, but that's just an acceleration force. It's why spacecraft take time to stop and maneuver, and why rockets work at all outside of a gravity well - if the fuel were massless as well as weightless, then there would be no opposite reaction when it were ejected, no matter the velocity.
And in this chapter, Mike gets knocked around by a blast wave...but there aren't blast waves in a vacuum (waves of what?). The danger would be in getting penetrated by shrapnel, but it would be more likely to pass through him than physically displace him any distance.
Enjoying the story!
arrowglass11 months agoNow...I am "waiting with bated breath" to find out? Really enjoyed how you put this chapter together.
