When he recovered from his initial shock, he examined his catch more closely. It was definitely not a female body, which relieved his worst fears but set him a puzzle. The only male aboard the Honey B was Bred, and he would never have been foolish enough to set the bomb. He studied the face carefully, then realized with surprise that this was the android’s body.
But how could that be? He’d backwashed the android’s ship on Eclipsiascus. How could it have survived that, and how had it come to be here on Pompeii with the Honey B?
A finger on the body’s left hand twitched, attracting Jusser’s attention. He was about to dismiss the movement as a galvanic reflex after death when suddenly the body gasped convulsively for air. This was a major miracle—the android was still alive!
Jusser thought
