Journal Entry 254 / 0264 There was a knock at my door, and I turned.Journal Entry 254 / 0264 There was a knock at my door, and I turned. "What?" I shouted, somewhat annoyed. Jill, a young Centaur stood in the doorway, panting. "I just came from the Arc, Ken. Kurt told me to run over and tell you that P'nyssa's just gone into labor." "What?" I asked. "Okay, I'll be right there." Why, in our infinitely networked world, do people insist on using messengers? Still, it seemed right. Labor? That... It suddenly dawned on me what Jill had just told me. Set, I wasn't ready! I grabbed my windbreaker and slung it around my shoulders, heading out to the grav-tube that led to the roof. I ran down the hallway that led to the stairs that finally led to the roof, and as I careened off the side of the roof to a tractored fall to the ground, it clicked what Jill had said. "At the Arc?" I said to myself. "Why there?" Jill had been well ahead of me and had already programmed the SDisk for us. I leapt onto it, and she joined me. We vanished. And reappeared inside the Arc. I began another crazy race down the hallways towards Arcology medical, where I ran into old friends. "Kurt, Kris!" I said. "Ken!," Kurt said. "You got my message, good. |