#52: “I’d be more interested in discussing events on Mars.”

#51: Keeping the same dress she wore to dinner should convey the message that the meeting wasn’t her destination for the night, just a stop along the way.

#50: “And don’t worry, that’s not part of the plan.”

#49: “I look forward to it,” she said, with a smile she hoped looked genuine.

#49: “Everyone on Venus knows her,” Amelia answered. “She was the first First Engineer.”

#48: Del suspected Amelia’s expression of delight on seeing it was actually genuine.

They say write what you know, but so far I’m not doing that in this book.

#46: It wasn’t as bad as Del had feared.

#45: “This whole thing is stupid,” Bilan said, “But there are protocols to be played at and an image to be created.”

#44: “It’s what you wore for your arrival, you can’t wear the same thing to dinner.” Once again, the return of the Sentence of the Day. It’s been a while. And I’ve missed a lot of days of writing since the last one, but I’m finally getting going again now. (Of course, come January, I’ll