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The Passenger - Kenneth Harmon
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Title: The Passenger
Author: Kenneth Harmon
Illustrator: Connell
Release Date: November 19, 2009 [EBook #30500]
Language: English
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THE PASSENGER
By KENNETH HARMON
The classic route to a man's heart is through his stomach—and she was just his dish.
Illustrated by CONNELL
The transport swung past Centaurus on the last leg of her long journey to Sol. There was no flash, no roar as she swept across the darkness of space. As silent as a ghost, as quiet as a puff of moonlight she moved, riding the gravitational fields that spread like tangled, invisible spider webs between the stars.
Within the ship there was also silence, but the air was stirred by a faint, persistent vibration from the field generators. This noiseless pulse stole into every corner of the ship, through long, empty passageways lined with closed stateroom doors, up spiraling stairways to the bridge and navigational decks, and down into vast and echoing holds, filled with strange cargo from distant worlds.
This vibration pulsed through Lenore's stateroom. As she relaxed on her couch, she bathed in it, letting it flow through her to tingle in her fingertips and whisper behind her closed eyelids.
Home,
it pulsed, you're going home.
She repeated the word to herself, moving her lips softly but making no sound. Home,
she breathed, back home to Earth.
Back to the proud old planet that was always home, no matter how far you wandered under alien suns. Back to the shining cities clustered along blue seacoasts. Back to the golden grainlands of the central states and the high,