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a Dac starship on a trajectory for L5 has penetrated the solar system; it
will be the sixth Dae starship to park there since the Unilateral Cease Fire,
and the second in the last year.

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Watering-can heavy in his hand, Ale Elatey Aefay Aitches'see Enefefsix
stopped to check the DacWatch alarm light. In the-ory, he could skip the
precaution and survive. If the tell-tale burned red, unlatching the terrace
door should trigger a ninety-decibel buzzer. And the light on the warning
system reddened whenever the apartment computer which controlled it told
it anything but "no extraterrestrials within fifteen kilometers." The
DacWatchтАФwith a price tag larger than Ale's monthly paycheckтАФeven had
an Uninterruptable Power Source that turned on a scarlet strobe when the
ap-comp crashed. According to its money-back guarantee, it offered
near-perfect protection. In theory.

In practiceтАФBarely aware of what he was doing, Ale Elatey stroked the
metal disc under the skin behind his right temple.тАФtrusting anything
electronic is a gamble. That was experience speaking, not superstition:
Twice his implant had glitched; twice bright static had sparkled so white, so
loud in his brain that he had gone into seizure, biting his tongue, soiling
himself. He dreaded the future shocks which would come, less terminally
than death, less regularly than taxes, but no less certainly than either. Yet
to be a SeeleyтАФto have the respect he had hungered for since
childhoodтАФhe had to take that one risk, at least.