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She calculated quickly. ‘ETA Sol - one minute forty.’
Steve reached forward and touched his Navigation Officer on the shoulder. ‘Thank you, Cassi. Everyone
strapped in? It’s a tight turn round behind Sol.’
Cassi glanced at him quickly, looked around the flight deck and then pressed the tannoy button. ‘All crew
stand by. Ninety-degree left turn in approximately eighty seconds.’
‘Will the others be all right down below?’ the First Officer asked with concern.
‘Don’t worry, Mike. Bob and Juanita have driven with Cassi and Lyn before. They know all about women
drivers.’
‘Sol looks warm today,’ observed Mike. ‘I hope she doesn’t give off a flare as we’re passing.’
‘One minute to turn,’ said Cassi apparently without emotion, although her feelings of revulsion welled up
inside her at the unnecessary destruction of human life.
‘Are you all right, Cassi?’ whispered her husband.
The Navigation Officer nodded, holding back the tears as she made slight course corrections to take
Wayfarer around the back of the sun.
‘Thirty seconds to turn,’ she managed to get out as the vast fiery monster loomed closer.
Cassi closed her eyes and tried not to imagine the consternation there would have been on board the
shuttle when they observed Wayfarer coming at them and then the panic as they noticed it still had the
nuclear missile right behind it. They would have had no more than a second or two between the time
Wayfarer disappeared and the shuttle’s own missile struck, instantly vapourising it and everything within. No
time to think, no time to take avoiding action.
‘Cassi!’ Mike’s frantic voice broke through her thoughts and, upon glancing at the screen, realised she had
passed the turn point. She pushed keys on the computer and the big ship began to turn.
 Suddenly, Iris bleeped. ‘DANGER >’
‘Identify danger,’ she said quickly.
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