Chapter 10
“You pressed the recall button,” Shiny Beads said.
“I did.”
“Yet you’re still in that avatar.”
“I am.” Back in the spaceship ‘Here Are Some Shiny Beads,’ she swam to the couch and rested herself on it as if she owned the place. “I had nowhere else to go.”
“You’re always welcome here, Delphine. But what about your organic body? Don’t you wish to get back to it anymore?”
“Of course I want to!” she spat out, arms raised. “But it’s dead, floating on the surface. It will have reached Australia by now, if it’s not eaten already.”
There was silence for a while.
“Delphine?”
“Yeah, what?” she grumbled. “This couch is mine by the way, it’s not like you’re using it or anything.”
“You’re welcome to everything on board. But I thought about your situation and ran a few simulations.”
