For the next two weeks, they worked in secret, Warner and any work or graduate supervision forgotten. They each proposed experiments and hypotheses to test, but could not increase the fidelity of the memories between timelines. There were flashes of specificity, persistent facts, and vivid emotional echoes, but they...

For moving to the edge of the known, I am spending a surprising amount of time off of Bennu, mostly because Shah doesn't want to go on the trips our office is obliged to go on. This one was a quick half-day shuttle trip inward, to try and find consensus on the minutiae of Ship Compliance, so that docking at Bennu...

Fana likes to go ride the faoli, and it worries me out of my mind. They are only permitted in zoos back in the core, and for good reason. When I was in school, one of the trips was to a local zoo, and they had just received a shipment of faoli—they claimed to be wild, but it was more likely they were from an illegal...

“I’ll let you use it,” was the phrase that knocked Utsab out of his robotic nursing protocol. He was muttering about whether to warm up his car. “What?” he said, and Wemly saw something in his expression dislodge and his conscious brain regain control. “I’ll let you use it,” Wemly repeated. Utsab was clearly anxious...

The irony of the compliance division being audited for compliance was met with earnest explanation by the officers conducting the audit. "It's actually the most important form of compliance," was heard repeatedly as we walked around docking bays and spent far too much time in Shah's office answering questions that...

We had a delegation come through the station last week from Yabaru---they're on the deep space port of the local system, but intrigued about increasing trade, especially with fast travel eventually coming. They were particularly interested in the energy storage platforms that we use, and the few from the core that...

Despite her persistence, acquiring consistent and permanent memories across timelines was not a problem Wemly solved. Like many seemingly impossible challenges in the Warner lab, it was Utsab who found the solution; however, unlike most, it was not dumped in his lap because a grad student wasn’t up to the task of...

I am unhinged. I waste the days. I have tics. I haven’t been sleeping well. I stare at the shuttle---the one I rented---in its bay when I walk by. Sometimes I go to the hangar when I have nothing to inspect, just to look at it. I imagine I am back navigating the asteroid field, which at the time I found stressful,...

Back at the lab, Wemly had essentially given up on her abstract---the one figure she was allowed could be culled from some previous presentation given to Warner, and she already had the basic shape of the text. It was only 250 words, and she could knock that out from scratch on a bad day if needed. But the...

Me, and what seems to be every traveller who makes it out this far, have come to park their ships in geosynchronous orbit above Verde Cap. Most of the visitors are from beyond Bennu, which makes for interesting chatter on the public channel. We all came here to sit like barnacles and wait for Verde's outer moon to...

I'm in the orbital gravity of Eip, a perfectly elliptical asteroid that is passing through the outer protection ring of Bennu Station for the first time in 2013 years. Getting here is easy on the big ships that will take a tourist, if you can afford the auto-nav fee, which I cannot. So I rented a shuttle, these days...