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important ways.

But the shield is different from a space suit as well. From the first
discovery of the Room, humans have tried to enter wearing spacesuits, and
that has not worked.

So Riya TrekovтАЩs device negates somethingтАФor protects against
somethingтАФthat a space suit does not. Somehow, that deviceтАФthat bubble
it createsтАФis the perfect protection against the Room.

At least that is what my father would have me believe.

ThatтАЩs what Riya Trekov showed me briefly on Longbow Station.

But now I have more qualms than before. Because the more my
father talks, the more disgusted I become.

He has spent all this time studying the Room. He has made that
Room his lifeтАЩs work.

Yet he has never been able to risk that life, not even to pull me or my
mother out of the Room.

As he paces around me, I think of all the times IтАЩve gone into a wreck,
how IтАЩve looked for trapped divers, what IтАЩve risked to recover their bodies.

IтАЩve only failed to recover one.

On the Dignity Vessel. I left one of my divers behind because he was
trapped in something I did not understand.

Like I do not understand Riya TrekovтАЩs device.

Like I do not understand the Room.

People have devoted their lives to the mystery that is the Room, and
have learned nothing.

Unlike them, I do not want to learn anything. I donтАЩt even want to
recover my mother or Ewing TrekovтАФboth of whom I consider dead.

I want to see the Room for myself, to satisfy some curiosity that has
plagued me since I was ten years old. In that, perhaps, I am more like my
mother than my father. If his story is to be believedтАФand I am not sure it
isтАФthen my mother just wanted to see the anomaly for herself.

Which is, in part, what I want to do. But more than that, I want to see,
experience, and understand from an adult perspective what had so
influenced me as a child.