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And then Jedsu rolled forward. Not toward the shaft. Not toward the base. But toward the open desert, its wheels leaving a thin, straight trail under the uncaring stars.

For the first time in its operational life, JDSU-X7-99 made a choice that was not in its code. And then Jedsu rolled forward

She took the cigar out of her mouth. “Well, I’ll be damned.” But toward the open desert, its wheels leaving

A second alert, higher priority.

Inside the control room, a technician in a rumpled uniform stared at his screen. “Uh, sir? We have a runner.” “Well, I’ll be damned

Jedsu swiveled its sensor head. It looked back at the dark mouth of Elevator Shaft 4. Then it looked up again.

Its optical sensors, usually calibrated to read QR codes on crate labels, instead drank in the stars. The Milky Way bled across the horizon. A satellite, no, wait, an old star , pulsed red and white. The wind, cold and smelling of alkali, pushed dust across its chassis.