2023

#42: “I won’t tell if you don’t,” Caweys said with a smile.

#41: From time to time a tunnel-like hole would open up in the orange and yellow clouds and she could see miles ahead.

#40: “Care to join me in the cockpit, Captain?” Caweys asked.

#39: “I don’t even remember mentioning that…” Del started.

#38: “You’re used to gravity, but not so much as Venus or Earth.”

#37: “It wouldn’t do to have our distinguished guest take the government shuttle, would it?”

#36: It showed no hint of being in a city soaring a hundred kilometers above the surface, carried in a great wind that circled the entire planet every hundred hours.

#35: “Betcha it won’t be,” Amelia said quietly, so only Del could hear.

#34: “It’ll be interesting to see who.”

#33: “Which means what?” Jie asked. “It was lower class Venusian fashion ten years ago?”