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All there was, all I remembered, was a blur.
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Gathering for drinks in the parlors, playing dress up with all the fine clothes I found in the closets (some of it modern, some of it period dress for special themed events), idling in the lounges.
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Now and then, a new face mingled in the crowd.
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Other faces washed out, fading into the backdrop of carpets and fake glass chandeliers and the muted hum of the engines.
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So when my shuttle malfunctioned and the airlocks didn't keep the air in, I heard nothing.
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One of these evenings, we were gathered in the South Ballroom for post-dinner drinks, lounging on couches and watching other members of our populace move in circles on the dance floor.
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'South'
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There weren't.)
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Sarah's circle had picked up another newcomer, Adrienne, a short blond girl who we all agreed was barely old enough to attend a traditional university back on Earth, let alone work on the ship in whose wreck Jefferson had found her.
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My first thought: I was going crazy.
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Maybe it was her curiosity, asking a question I should have asked long before, that turned the conversation serious; maybe there was just something special about that evening.
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Twenty-four hours of silence (vacuum, remember); was I hallucinating noises now?
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Maybe we had all tired of the frivolity of our life, hitting some threshold or some breaking point.
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Regardless, when Adrienne asked what the ship's purpose was, we all gave it a measure of thought.
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We dredged up half-fledged theories and inchoate explanations, tossing these out the same way we pitched ideas about the art films.
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“I believe we'll see the end of the universe,”
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“I believe we'll see the end of the universe,” said Tiffany.
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Captain's cohort, she had a glass of orange-brown liquid in one hand; it might have been orange juice and some kind of berry liquor.
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She swirled it speculatively.
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I watched Adrienne.
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“Impossible,”
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“Impossible,” said Zheng, sitting in the chair to her left.
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“We can't live that long.”
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“Maybe the universe will end sooner than you think,”
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Yeah, the captain was there, with the rest of us.
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He didn't drink, but he made a point of mingling with all the various cliques.
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“Maybe we'll travel at the speed of light and we won't age,”
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“Maybe we'll travel at the speed of light and we won't age,” said Sarah, setting her wine glass on the little round end table by her couch.
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“Maybe we're already traveling at the speed of light.”
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“Relatively says it all.”
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Zheng scoffed.
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“Also impossible.
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“Also impossible. Even if we were traveling at ninety-nine percent of the speed of light—that's assuming you ignore science and pretend that such a thing is possible, because it isn't—we'd still age. We'd just appear to age slower than people not traveling as fast as us.”
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We'd just appear to age slower than people not traveling as fast as us.”
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“And?”
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said Sarah.
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“Aging is relative, anyway.
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“Aging is relative, anyway. Besides, I wouldn't mind being around forever. Give our ancestors purpose. Keep their dreams alive.”
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Besides, I wouldn't mind being around forever.
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Keep their dreams alive.”
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“New hypothesis,”
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“No one's immortal.
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“No one's immortal. In fact, the opposite: We're all going to die.”
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In fact, the opposite: We're all going to die.”
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“Bleak,”
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“Bleak,” commented Zheng.
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“But I like it.”
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Ray took a drink from his glass of ice water, and shook his head.
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“We're all going to die, so what better thing to do than enjoy the time we have?”
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Kishori gestured to the bar, the carpets, the paintings.
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“All the luxuries money can buy.”
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“All the luxuries money can buy,”
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“All the luxuries money can buy,” she echoed.
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And accompanying the bell, I saw a light.
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“Paid for how?”
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“Smuggling,”
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Matter-of-fact.
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Jefferson snorted, amused.
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“Think about it,”
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“Think about it,” Kishori continued, “where else would we get the money to buy all this?”
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“where else would we get the money to buy all this?”
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“Renegade smugglers.
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“Renegade smugglers. So what's our cargo, eh, captain?”
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So what's our cargo, eh, captain?”
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Zheng joked, leaning back in his chair with his glass of wine.
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Jefferson shook his head and stood up.
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“I'll leave you to your speculation,”
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“I'll leave you to your speculation,” he said.
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Now, there were two things here that made ridiculously small amounts of sense.
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A chorus of good nights followed him out the door.
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After the captain left, Zheng leaned in.
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He set his glass down on an end table, steepled his fingers together.
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“We're revolting,”
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“We're revolting,” he told us.
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“And I don't mean that you disgust me.
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“And I don't mean that you disgust me. No, we're the start of a rebellion. Did you hear what the captain said earlier? He means, we're going to change the future. The universe as we know it won't be the same.”
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No, we're the start of a rebellion.
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The universe as we know it won't be the same.”
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“That's dumb,”
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“Wouldn't we know it if we were part of a rebellion?
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Zheng shook his head.
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“The captain selected us for a reason. He has inside intelligence—how else would he know where to find us? He knows about us.”
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He has inside intelligence—how else would he know where to find us?
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He knows about us.”
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“That's still dumb,”
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“That's still dumb,” said Sarah.
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“Inside intelligence?
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“Inside intelligence? Don't you remember, there's not exactly one big galactic government from which to steal information.”
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Don't you remember, there's not exactly one big galactic government from which to steal information.”
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First, the whole in-a-vacuum why's-there-a-bell thing.
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Jefferson didn't share how he found people.
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He didn't share how he knew exactly where the wrecks were, or why he saved some people but not others.
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But then again, no one asked.
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He had been at this savior business longer than any of us.
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I wondered if Adrienne would ask about that.
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“We're going to mean something,”
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“We're going to mean something,” Zheng was saying.
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Second, I was floating in the dark remnants of my broken ship, and any conceivable light sources were not within view; starlight is a distinctly different color and significantly less bright.
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“What we do, rebelling against the oppression of the many governments that oppose us, we're going to leave a legacy.”
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He sounded certain.
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