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why Johnathan came to apologize."

"Apologize?"

"Yes. He even brought her some flowers—real ones. She just threw them away. I
don't know what happened to them."

"I have them," spoke up the quiet-looking young woman at the far end of the
table. Shino searched her memory and recalled that her name was Dru


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something. She was a short, slightly dumpy-looking woman with a moon-shaped
face and a perpetually sad expression. Her drab brown spacer uniform hung on
her like a sack. "I've been trying to get them to grow," she continued.

"Oh," Shino said. "I'm afraid I didn't catch your last name, Dru."

"It's Awa-om-anoth."

"That's a very unusual name."

"Dru's a very unusual person," Bred answered.

"That's right, you said she runs your computer, didn't you?"

"No." Bred shook his head and smiled. "She is our computer."

Shino wrinkled her brow in puzzlement. "I don't understand. How can you run a
spaceship without an electronic computer?"

"Well, we do have a small computer that handles our automatic operations—
temperature controls and whatnot—but Dru does all our astrogational
calculations."

"But… but how can she do them fast enough?"

Bred settled back in his chair. "That, my dear, is a very long story. Are you sure
you want to hear it?"

"I have to know everything about all of you if I'm going to write your story
correctly."

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