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our guest the docking bays".
The officer seated at the console pressed keys and some of the screens
switched to various views of the immense bays in which the smaller ships were
stored and maintained. Wendy stood expressionless.
"Our final stop is the one you will find most interesting. Walk this way. I
suppose I really needn't have bored you with all the other details of the
operations of this ship, but I couldn't help myself. I'm quite proud of her,
you know. Ah, here we are".
They stood outside a closed hatch leading from the command bridge. Major
Andria pressed Miori's thumb to the lock. It acknowledged Miori's thumbprint and
requried Miori's to type in a complex code of numbers. At last, the hatch slid
open.
The room beyond was nearly empty; surrounded by blank walls sat a man,
strapped into a chair. His eyes were closed and for all Wendy could tell he
might have been dead. The chair itself was large and complex, various
screens and keypads built into it. Oddly, most of these were on the sides
and back of the chair and not on the arms where he could easily reach them.
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