A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my Captains and Crew. Light plays over me through the whole spectrum, and I walk in beauty. 

So I am always well dressed.

The little one wants company, Jehen told me. So I made a simulacrum of myself — what I remember of Yasmin-before — and danced, and played the drums, and taught the little one the steps. 

And talked to her. She misses her folk, like all of us in exile.

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Character interview with Yasmin Ship’s-Heart from Inside the Jump. “I walk in beauty” is a riff on a line from Byron. These character interviews will be edited and published as part of the May-June story releases.

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