Chapter 3: A Surprise in the Morning Mail
She opened her morning mail expecting to see nothing but the bills that Igor had left her. The lazy bum had been long on pie in the sky and short on money in the account. Thankfully she hadn’t given up her work as a network installer. There hadn’t been much work before the evacuation notice, and even less since then. Her job was to design and install computer and communication networks. She actually enjoyed the work. It had been the only thing that kept her sanity after Igor had pulled his stupid stunt at the space port the month before last. When the census had come around and they had asked if she was willing to be part of a pioneer party she had said why not. She didn’t expect to be the first one to go. In fact with her four kids and a network manager she figured she would be the last one. Hell she thought someone had to watch the kids, and her work could mostly be done on a computer from her home. She didn’t go out into the field much just designed the networks. That’s why her job worked out. She could work from home, be there for her kids when they got home from school. If she was selected for pioneering she wasn’t certain how her kids were going to be taken care of. She started to go through the mail and was floored when she saw the crown summons. She opened the E-mail and saw that she was invited to be part of the initial lift.
She stared at it for a few minutes. She had twenty four hours to say yes. She printed it off and walked into her kitchen and poured herself a second cup of coffee. She read through the summons again and what her position would be on the team. It surprised her. She would be supervising a team of thirty network installers and designing the network that they would install. She would spend one or two days a week at field sites and the others at home or in the office that she would set up. Most of the team she didn’t know; but a couple of the guys she had worked with in the past and they were some of the best in the business. Seeing who her team would be she had to say yes.
She was still in shock to think that almost twelve weeks ago she had almost been killed in that ridiculous container accident that killed Igor. To think that if he had just worked with the system he would be one of the first ones to be evacuated. She shook her head and sat down to the computer and replied yes.
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