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I stare at the picture, but don’t remember hies, with dark hair and eyes but that distinct oddness in his look sho different he is from us—he’s notin front of a trailer, holding a fat baby in his lap Certainly, he’s no one important, no one Eldest made me memorize facts about

“It’s Ed ”

“Who?”

“Ed I met him just before I was frozen He was actually one of the men who froze me and my parents ”

That doesn’t seeh reason for his picture to be located beside Abraham Lincoln’s I reach past Amy and touch the screen The picture of this “Ed” stops; when I touch the screen again, the text about him pops up

“Edmund Albert Davis, Junior,” I read aloud “The first child born on Godspeed, shown here with his father, Edmund Albert Davis, Senior, one of the recruits froht ”

“I knew hi at the picture as if Ed to hined up to leave Earth on Godspeed ”

I a about Edmund Albert Davis, Junior, and hoas the first person born to captivity here I wonder how he felt about it, growing up with people who’d lived on Earth, knowing he’d never ever see that

“I wish I had known,” Amy says “I wish I had talked to him more I wish I had asked him why he’d joined the crew He seemed so bitter eat the screen without seeing it Suddenly, she laughs “Just think! I o, and now I could meet his ancestors on this ship! Descendants of the man who froze me! How cool would that be?” She turns to“What if you were a descendent of Ed? Talk about a coincidence!”

I laugh because she’s laughing

“I wonder if you are,” she says, her gaze dancing between e on the wall floppy

“Are what?”

“A descendant of Ed?”

“I don’t know ”

“Oh, please!” Ay, surely soical chart I bet Eldest or that doctor has one—they were the ones all concerned about incest ”