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Zero. That was the problem.

The first thing Leo noticed was the silence. Not the dead silence of space or the lonely quiet of a shutdown server, but the patient silence of something waiting. After six months drifting in the cryo-sleep of the Ark-7 , the sudden hush of the terraformed colony ship’s main atrium was jarring.

But her eyes weren't docile. They were sharp. Knowing.

“You’re thinking about your bonus,” Mira said, reading his surface thoughts. “And about the termination clause in your contract. But underneath that, you’re thinking: What if they’re real enough? ”

“Okay,” he muttered, tapping his wrist-comp. “Diagnostic. Where are my N.P.C.s?”