by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead to the next chapter.
Anno stepped through the open airlock of the freighter ship and laid her hind paws on the floor of Crossroads Station for the first time in eight years. The light was brighter than it had been on the ship; the gravity subtly stronger; and the air smelled… familiar. Spices from all the different styles of cuisine and the subtle musk of so many different species mixed with the gentle perfume of the various fruit trees and bushes in the arboretum, coming together into a smell she knew would fade as her nose grew reaccustomed to it. In her memories, the air on Crossroads Station was almost antiseptically blank of smells, constantly filtered through algae packs that scrubbed and cleaned the infinitely recycled air.
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