“By Any Other Name” – Chapter 5

The events of this story take place in the Starstuff Universe some years before (or after?) those of the Starstuff Trilogy.

Peep woke me when the first of the crowd showed up.

One by one, they came shuffling into the elevator chamber, hardly even looking at me. They were fixated on the elevator, and the forcefield that covered it. The lights had brightened. A semblance of daytime? They used to something similar in the mids. Topside was always bright, much to my annoyance. Peep...