Em-Lin said a second time, louder and more firmly than the first. “Unless either of you has a better idea right now.” Ever since she had followed Vance to the access panel for the quantum bomb system, he and Lauoc had blocked her view of the controls.Now that Em-Lin had gotten their attention, Vance and Lauoc looked at her, then at each other, then back at her. Em-Lin saw naked and abundant skepticism in their eyes, but that was okay. She did not much care what the Starfleeters’ opinions of her might be, as long as she was confident that she could do the job.Lauoc was the first to step aside. “We have less than a minute before the quantum bomb goes off,” he said, raising his voice over the latest round of weapons fire.“It’s a morphic system,” said Vance. When he jabbed a finger into the circuitry, glowing wires slithered away from his touch and reformed a connection several centimeters beyond his fingertip. “Shape-shifting technology.”Em-Lin nodded and pushed forward to the open access panel in the wall.
