《The Ship Who Searched》作者： - Anne McCaffrey & Mercedes Lackey【EPUB】

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Anne McCaffrey - Tsw 2 The Ship Who Searched By Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey Copyright 1992 Chapter ONE The ruby light on the corn unit was blinking when Hypatia Cade emerged from beneath the tutor's hood, with quadratic equations dancing before her seven- year-old eyes. Not the steady blink that meant a recorded message, nor the triple-beat that meant Mum or Dad had left her a note, but the double blink with a pause between each pair that meant there was some- one Upstairs, waiting for her to open the channel. Someone Upstairs meant an unscheduled ship — Ha knew very well when all the scheduled visits were; they were on the family calendar and were the first things reported by the AI when they all had breakfast That made it Important for her to answer, quickly, and not take the time to suit up and run to the dig for Mum or Dad. It must not have been an emergency, though, or the AI would have interrupted her lesson. She rubbed her eyes to rid them of the dancing vari- ables, and pushed her stool over to the corn-console so she could reach all the touch-pads when she stood on it. She would never have been able to reach things sit- ting in a chair, of course. With brisk efficiency that someone three times her age might have envied, she cleared the board, warmed up the relay, and opened the line. 'Exploratory Team Cee-One-Two-One," she enun- oated carefully