Book 4: Chapter 25: Crossover
Bob
September 2334
Nirvana River System
Six days later, we were in the Garack segment. I’d caught up with Hugh, and both of our mannies were wedged up under the hull of one of the Crew boats.
I sat in my La-Z-Boy while Hugh lay flopped in the beanbag chair.
“We’ve been surprisingly lucky the last week,” Hugh said. “But now we have to use the transfer river to get over to the Arcadia. They know we’re on the Nirvana, or at least we were recently. They know we are or at least might be heading for Garack’s Spine—”
“Thanks to me labelling the box at one point. Brilliant move.”
“Twenty-twenty, hindsight is,” Hugh said with a shrug. “And anyway, I think the reason these boats came here is specifically because they know our destination and are setting up blockades. And we got a free ride out of it. So it’s not all downside.”
“Except for the part about them setting up a blockade.”