So much is at stake, always, but so clearly now. A journey to an unknown presence at the far side of the solar system, and the routine birth of a child. Anxious phone calls to Maria and transmissions to the ship. If there’s bad news, will Uria tell us? Will it affect the way her voice sounds, and what will we read into this, not knowing the cause? The transfer works the other way too: a problem on Nereus, Uria alerted mid-sleep in the motel, a car brings her to Room 1 but it’s too late, it’s already happened, all that’s left of us is light, and she’s distraught as Maria calls her but she can’t
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