The Faded Quadrant

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I. The light in the airlock was the color of old blood. I stood there, hands stained black to the wrists, watching the seal hiss shut behind me. It is a fact of this station that the salt air does not just smell; it eats. It eats the metal, the skin, and the debt. I am Maria Almeida, thirty-two, and I am a terraforming seed-pilot, which is a polite way of saying I am a debtor with dirt under...

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