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BSK-6 / WT-4 / R-17.
It appeared meaningless.
Tivid thought so too.
“Transfer notation.”
“What does it mean?”
“Breskaa sector six. Worker transport four. Route seventeen.”
“Route from where?”
He looked at the source record.
“Ursaga.”
“No.”
He glanced at me.
“What?”
“The record before Ursaga.”
“There is no prior route attached.”
“Then why seventeen?”
Tivid went still.
I hated when aliens went still like that. It usually meant I had accidentally said something intelligent.
“What?”
He opened five more Breskaa transfer records.
Route seventeen.
Route seventeen.
Route twelve.
Route seventeen.
Route seventeen.
“Maybe a freight route,” I said.
“Possibly.”
“Where does it start?”
He searched.
Nothing.
Scarlet came in carrying coffee that was not coffee.
