88 89 “That’s good leadership, Sasha. And it’s actually Devon I was going to ask you to connect up to next. We’re concerned that we can’t get through to the lunar space station. It’s round the far side of the Moon at the moment, so we have to bounce our signal through your base. We think there’s a problem with your equipment and I have an engineer who can guide Devon through checking it.” “Ok, I’ll get hold of them… Devon, are you there? Are you ok?” She’s relieved and smiles as Devon jokes, “Yeah, I am. I mean, I am locked in an engineering workshop with a zombie outside, but I‘m ok. What is going on?” Sasha explains the situation and connects the engineer. Then Josef cuts back in again. “Ok, there’s been some developments while you were handling that. The astronomer says that the orbiter is a spacecraft of unknown origin. It could even be extra-terrestrial.” unwrap a chocolate bar out of the locker, and give it to her?” Sasha grabs one. It’s an M&S Big Daddy. Unexpected, but she guesses that Hopper brought it as a personal item. She passes it to Hopper who takes it tentatively, sniffs it, then grins and starts to eat. Sasha relaxes and says to Josef, “Ok, that worked.” “Good. Now I have some news. We’ve detected an object in orbit around the Moon that we haven’t seen before. It’s over your heads right now. It’s too small for us to get a good look at from here so we need to use the telescopes where you are. Kiran is in the astronomy lab, right? We have an expert here.” Josef talks her through how to connect and a moment and in a few minutes she has put an astronomer through to Kiran, and a doctor in touch with Skylar. “Listen Josef. I’m worried about Devon. They saw something nasty; I’m going to check in on them.”
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