Why did I scent them a few days and never others? was once it easily dumb success or used to be there a explanation for their presence, or lack thereof? anything Jao acknowledged to me comes again. There’s a scientist on Aganir who’s supposedly had extra good fortune utilizing the fence to maintain the Spectres out. not anyone else has had any good fortune replicating his good fortune, although. probably we must always have settled the resistance on Aganir rather than Tiersten. no longer that I’d are looking to reside there—nasty position, it’s like respiring underwater in a rubbish unload. respiring underwater in a rubbish unload. a gentle unexpectedly is going on in my brain. What in the event that they had it improper? What if it wasn’t the fence in any respect? “Teal, are the misters operating at the present time? ” She frowns. “I’m uncertain. Gran might recognize. Why? ” At my exhortation, she hyperlinks Taylor. pleasure builds in me as I pay attention the reply. “Unfortunately, they close off back the day past morning,” Taylor tells us. “The fix group in basic terms obtained them operating back an hour in the past. They let us know it’s a valve problem—apparently the most valve hasn’t been establishing and shutting adequately, leading to too little mist occasionally and an excessive amount of at others. Why? is that this extra learn to your venture, Teal? ” “Uh, yeah. thank you, Gran. ” Teal hyperlinks off, bringing her sharp gaze to undergo on me. “It’s the misters! ” I exclaim sooner than she has an opportunity to invite. “There’s whatever within the nutrient mist they don’t like. possibly it’s now not sufficient to kill them, however it definitely turns out to place them off. ” “I inspiration they didn’t breathe. ” “They don’t, yet that doesn’t suggest they aren’t nonetheless delicate to the air round them, the way in which we’re delicate to air temperature or smells. possibly the nutrient mist simply smells undesirable to them. Or feels undesirable to them, no matter what their similar of odor is. ” I inform Teal approximately Aganir, and he or she nods. “Then if shall we get the nutrient mist going complete blast again . . . ” “We could possibly strength them out of the jewelry! ” I end. We grin at one another, ecstatic on the probabilities. Then fact units again in and my smile drops from my face. “It won’t paintings. whether shall we get them out of the jewelry, it wouldn’t subject. The bomb is just too strong. I’ll take out the whole station whilst i'm going despite the place i'm. I’m sorry. ” “Maybe now not. ” Teal thinks for a moment. “In truth, probably you don’t have to cross Nova in any respect. ” no longer pass Nova? My mouth drops open on the concept. might it's that once steeling myself as much as settle for my destiny there’s how to stay away from it finally? “Tell me. ” Teal leans in, and in quickly, terse phrases, explains her plan. 30SKULKING simply open air THE ENVIRO middle, I payment the time on my chit for roughly the hundredth time and take a look at to not glance suspicious. That’s no longer the simplest of assignments. situated on the fringe of the higher Habitat Ring at the topmost tier of farms, the realm round the Enviro heart isn't really precisely a traditional hang-out for many of the station’s youth, particularly now. It’s virtually twenty hundred hours, and Teal has been contained in the middle for forty-five mins already. I fee the time back and frown. the heart could be remaining quickly; the place is Teal?