“Is everything Alinata told us true?” Sibu says, speaking into the communicator. “Did you really die and come back as a . . . what did she call it?” “An atmech,” Jio tells him. “Yes, are you an atmech, Salo? Are you . . . like a tronic human, now?” Standing by the navigation table, Salim lets himself chuckle. “‘Tronic human’ isn’t far from the truth, actually.”
