Chapter 44: Books cure everything

"I am a genetic engineer, and I have the knowledge to speed up his recovery. They monitor me, but I am allowed to help him."

Aurora thought it might be her imagination, but it seemed as if the eye glared at Agrippa, not blinking.

"What is that?" Agrippa asked. She looked at the book as if it was the strangest object she'd ever encountered.

"It's a book. Very few of them exist anymore. This is how books looked before everyone started to use readers. It was made of trees turned into paper." One of the soldiers must've packed it when they grabbed her stuff. Of course, they didn't grab her reader. "Did you have books on Tunria?" She'd love to know more about the cultures on the other planet, but Balthazar hated talking about them.

"Yes, but our books were all electronic."

Agrippa settled down, and Aurora assumed she'd have an audience of two.