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A rollicking prequel to celestial courier Carna hurtling through time and space. <\/span>Carna Karaki and her Cerva was first introduced to TMR readers in May Haddad\u2019s debut short story “<\/span>Ride On, Shooting Star<\/span><\/a>.”<\/span><\/h5>\n

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May Haddad<\/span><\/h4>\n

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As soon as Carna steps into the lift for a date with that cute girl from the dispatch division, her pager notifies her of a job on the other end of the galaxy. The pay would cover her rent, but should she choose to accept the run, the cosmic courier would have to make it all the way across \u201cin 30 minutes or less\u201d (as the Universal Courier Service ads promised) \u2014 or else the delivery would be free \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

With no time to spare, she shamelessly shoves aside the lift attendant \u2014 too underpaid and overmedicated to put up a fight \u2014 then cranks the lever all the way, latching onto it for dear life as the cabinet surges through thousands of miles of space at warp speed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When she\u2019s finally in orbit, she falls head-first out the dinging door, stumbling her way towards her Cerva with a headache the size of the universe that she, too, is too underpaid and overmedicated for.<\/span><\/p>\n

This ride could very well have killed her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But hey, at least, this time, the elevator music didn\u2019t hurt.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the shifty men in suits and shades pass Carna the parcel, they urge her to handle it with care, cautioning that the fate of the universe is at stake \u2014 but that\u2019s not something that concerns Carna right now. The rent <\/span>needs <\/span><\/i>to be paid, or she\u2019ll end up on the chain dispatch again. However, if she\u2019s going to make it on time, she\u2019s gonna need a shortcut. Every conceivable route that the GPS could map out in the infinite vastness of space all lead her through the intragalactic sewage pipeline, where she could lose her sense of smell or, worse, have to take it out herself if she didn\u2019t want to go mad from the inhalation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But, again, <\/span>rent<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So Carna hops back onto her bike, activates her vizor \u2014 then carefully selects an appropriate synthwave playlist before bursting off into the farthest reaches of interplanetary excrement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without sparing a second, she speeds \u2014 with mechanically clenched nostrils \u2014 through the wormhole where the wastes of Uranus are eagerly disposed of, then swerves against the black hole in the center, making sure not to fall into its event horizon \u2014 all the while holding her breath for dear life as waste decomposes atom-by-atom \u2014 then accelerates into the exit, careful not to exceed a force of 20 G.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This entire cutoff takes around a second or so and drops her off right where a meteorite just barely brushes by her fender, denting it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unbelievable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cursing into the cold callousness of space, she shrugs off the STA, clutches the Cerva\u2019s twistgrip as if she\u2019s trying to choke her space-lord, hits the throttle like it owes her rent money, and blasts off bleating, somehow managing to avoid the debris passing by that would\u2019ve crushed her otherwise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The drop-off point was inside a planetary mind consisting of shell layers \u2014 each a computational node \u2014 constructed around a Class M star to power the ultimate supercomputer. One could only marvel at who or what was affluent enough to realize this triumph of human genius.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not that there was time to marvel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because as soon as she realizes how hot a celestial body of exploding gas is, Carna knows she\u2019s in for a ride.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though the outer layers are devoted to computation, this run, as luck would have it, needs her just outside the first layer \u2014 designed to harvest energy, releasing heat in the temperature of the star it surrounds \u2014 with a force-shield running on empty.<\/span><\/p>\n

This may daunt most, but this is just another run in the life of a cosmic courier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So she just shrugs, switches over to her heavy metal playlist, and kicks everything into high gear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before you can say, \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for more than 30 minutes,\u201d Carna\u2019s Cerva disappears in a flash, coursing through space at the speed of light, her vizor perceptually slowing everything down for her so she can process it in real time. Not that it helps much, with space junk flying everywhere in all directions \u2014 enough that a minor brush against one would have her veering so wildly off-course that she could end up a galaxy over. As she crosses countless light years to bypass each shell through unregistered heat levels that no other being had ever dared traverse before, she makes sure that her eyes are focused on what really matters \u2014 the ticking clock \u2014 until the heat is felt through the shield and she\u2019s afraid that sweat might stain the cute blouse under her bomber jacket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because she\u2019s finally here, the port only a light minute or so away as the force-shield shimmers under pressure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With no time to say \u201cmore than 30 minutes,\u201d she hastily unpackages the parcel and then throws the fire-proof stick through the force-shield \u2014 barely managing to get it across before she\u2019s completely blocked off from the input by her safeguard, covering her Cerva in a translucent, but impenetrable protector\u2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Promptly staring up at the upload screen high above that slowly fills up its bar as her watch\u2019s neon counter ticks down to the end of 30 minutes, she can feel the panic of missing rent again, choking on it \u2014 as she would her space-lord \u2014 before \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYOUR UPDATE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

This new system overhaul would uncap the AI\u2019s energy intake, finally allowing it to process the latest, highly-anticipated feature, promising users the chance to find their one true love through a comprehensive analysis of every single thought that had ever occurred to them and will ever occur to them since their ancient ancestors back on Earth consented around an eon or so ago to have that chip installed right on their cortexes and the cortexes of every relative, friend, and acquaintance \u2014 human or otherwise \u2014 till the end of time \u2014 time as our modern understanding of physics defines it and will continue to define it \u2026 forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the only drawback is that older models hosting the app would now be slower.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, with the run finally complete and rent secured, Carna rode her Cerva off triumphantly into the emptiness of space, wondering if she could finally find that perfect match on Matryoshka Meet now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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