Book 5: Chapter 3: What’s Up?
Icarus
June 2312
Interstellar Space
Iwas reconfiguring my VR when Dae abruptly popped in. He opened his mouth to say something, then stopped and looked around at the black walls, floor, and ceiling with horizontal and vertical yellow lines.
“Cute,” he said. “Enterprise holodeck.”
“It seems like an appropriate metaphor for a VR reset,” I replied. “Although kind of meta, if you think about it. You generally ping me before popping over. Something’s up.”
Dae shrugged. Even from a Bob point of view, we knew each other’s behavior far too well. “Uh, yeah. The surveys I’ve been doing of passing systems … ”
“You found something? What?”
“Something.” Dae chuckled. “That sounded Guppy-like, even to me. Nevertheless. I need your eyes and your opinion.”