ART BY JULIEN Well, you did it. How do you feel? Back to my usual miserable self. Gedim Weitz, aches and all. This was a mistake. Tell me about it. The symbiote isn’t harmful. I feel more alive than ever. You don’t know that, Joira. The symbiote could be— I don’t know how I feel? The fibers in your nervous system could be producing those feelings. Hell, they probably are. Manipulating your brain chemistry, producing endorphins to convince you not to fight it. The best thing you can do is get into this pod and clean it out of your system. No way. You’re risking your life. I’m not. Can you at least do daily physicals for me? Fine. We’re going to keep talking about this. But moving on for now. Have you No. 116 checked out the ship? You’ve been in the pod three days. I have certainly checked out the ship. Three days? Goddamn. That stuff really didn’t want to get evicted. Correct. But the ship is fully operational. Like, fully operational? Fully. Wow. Wow. You’re sure. We can’t be sure until we turn it on. But given the Agastya is here at all, where it otherwise couldn’t possibly be, we can assume the drive works as advertised. Faster than light. Wow. And the crew? You need to watch this. Goddamn. And fuckity fuck, yeah. So Torv and company succeed in building the world’s first faster than light drive—
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