Letter 10
Hi Bianca,
Well, we found ’em. Turns out, that was the easiest part.
We returned to the ship and had dinner. Warren and I disappeared into my cabin for awhile. Then he left, and I was ravenously hungry, as usual, so I sat up and ate a snack. Normally, then, I’d go right off to sleep—but I couldn’t sleep that night, for obvious reasons, so I asked Captain Bligh to materialize an exterior screen on my cabin wall so I could “look out the window” and just peacefully meditate on the state of the universe.
Although doing anything peacefully was out of the question. I saw it the instant I gazed out at the nighttime scene: a light was shining up through the hatch, illuminating the darkness.
I sat up, staring. There’d been no light there last night. Now we very obviously had neighbor
