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Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black by Isabel J. Kim (audio)

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Weaver and the Cryotube

We have to move fast, but there's a whole cascade of checks we need to make before taking off. We've got less than an hour or four other scavengers touched down if we're unlucky. I almost want to suggest we just wake the kid up and hide him instead of doing a swap. Sure, the tube will be convincing on the station, but we could make do with recordings and physical evidence. This isn't our first time transporting living biological material. It's just the first time the material has been sentient. What I'm really worried about is the cryo passenger exchange. They build cryotubes to last in most ships, but it's old tech. So we have

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