Unidentified floating object - snippet from Rishalt for #WeWriWa #SciFi Romance

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I skipped last week due to the holiday. Today with the new year, I’ll begin posting snippets from my WIP, Rishalt, Book 2 of Taxyon Space. The story begins on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, shortly after the end of Book 1. Here are the first lines (unedited):
The intercom beeped. A shrill voice yelled, “Dr. Bell, you’re ordered to the hub. We have an emergency. Unidentified floating object on the monitors.” Noting the edge of panic in the cantankerous Safety Officer’s voice, Nikki called, “Cut your jets, Tar, I’ll be up in a second.” Anxious to learn the worst, she left the lab and sprinted along the passage to the transit hub of Bathos, the submarine station in the ocean of Europa. What the styx could it be? The prototype spaceship, Taxyon One, had departed from Jupiter’s moon three weeks ago, leaving the fledgling colony without transport off the moon.

Book 1, Europa, is
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