It takes a certain type to crew a ship that drops you seven years at a time into the Deep. Kite-class cargo ships like Menkalinan get burned-out veterans, techs whoâ€™ve been warned off-planet,

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Dream Houses

It takes a certain type to crew a ship that drops you seven years at a time into the Deep. Kite-class cargo ships like Menkalinan get burned-out veterans, techs whoâ€™ve been warned off-planet, medics who werenâ€™t much good on the ground. The Gliese-D run isnâ€™t quite the end of the line, but itâ€™s getting there. No cachet, no rewards, no future; their trading posts get Kites full of cargo that the crew never ask questions about, because if itâ€™s headed for Gliese-D, itâ€™s probably something nobody wanted.

A year into the Deep, Amadis Reyes wakes up. Menkalinan is sounding the alarm; somethingâ€™s wrong. The rest of the crew are dead.

Thatâ€™s not even whatâ€™s wrong.

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Dream Houses