Flashback: 2-flt

“And if I don’t destroy it?”

“Conrad, please.”

The white void vanished. Conrad found himself back on Station Kronos, kneeling in a pool of coolant. The cables lay dead. The amber lights had turned a steady white. And Maya—the FLT kernel—was gone. Flashback 2-FLT

It was Dr. Maya Shen, his old mentor. The woman who had taught him to navigate the morphogenetic field. The woman he had watched die on Titan, twenty years ago. “And if I don’t destroy it