Good thing I’m not as helpless as I look. Kidnappers, slavers, pirates and yakuza - no matter where I go, trouble always seems to find me. Hoping to survive all the awful things that can happen to a girl on her own in space. Now I’m on the run, hoping against hope that the Matrons won’t try too hard to find me. What would they do, if they realized the Adjustments that were supposed to make me a meek little herd animal didn’t do anything? Even as a kid I knew not to trust the Matrons. When I was younger, I used to spend the evenings scaling the house tree’s tallest branches to observe the starships landing at the orbital stations above. I learned fast to downplay my abilities, keep my mouth shut and try to blend in. Perilous Waif Books Like Perilous Waif My name is Alice Long, and I have always understood that I am unique. There were other kids with mods at the orphanage, but nothing like that. It all seemed perfectly natural at the time. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves. When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different.
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