Space Hostages (2015)
“Except for Josephine. Who apparently had everything to do.
“Do you think Mr. Trommler’s ever going to let me fly you?” Carl asked the Helen while we played an idle game of Space Ping-Pong. We’d rigged up a net across the lounge and were floating on either side of it, lunging off the walls and ceiling after the ball. We’d come out of hyperspace into Alpha Centauri’s planetary system. There was a new sun far ahead and, much closer, a pale turquoise gas giant, looming within a band of silvery ring...s. And somewhere behind that was the distant dot that was Aushalawa-Moraaa.
We were twenty-five trillion miles from Earth. I supposed there really was no chance Mum would ever be able to catch up.
Meanwhile, Noel was being helpful by taking Ormerod for her morning walk around the Helen and Thsaaa was probably writing up their extended essay.
“Maybe, like, the last thousand miles?” suggested Carl without much hope. We hadn’t seen Mr. Trommler in over a week.
“He is so busy, and his work is so important,”MoreLess
“Do you think Mr. Trommler’s ever going to let me fly you?” Carl asked the Helen while we played an idle game of Space Ping-Pong. We’d rigged up a net across the lounge and were floating on either side of it, lunging off the walls and ceiling after the ball. We’d come out of hyperspace into Alpha Centauri’s planetary system. There was a new sun far ahead and, much closer, a pale turquoise gas giant, looming within a band of silvery ring...s. And somewhere behind that was the distant dot that was Aushalawa-Moraaa.
We were twenty-five trillion miles from Earth. I supposed there really was no chance Mum would ever be able to catch up.
Meanwhile, Noel was being helpful by taking Ormerod for her morning walk around the Helen and Thsaaa was probably writing up their extended essay.
“Maybe, like, the last thousand miles?” suggested Carl without much hope. We hadn’t seen Mr. Trommler in over a week.
“He is so busy, and his work is so important,”MoreLess
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