It was during dinner that conversation turned to the work that they had done before they crewed the machine. Captain and Signaller were sitting alone in the cramped mess but the others would join them soon. Captain was the one who asked, and Signaller replied that in his life before he worked mostly as a labourer on the building sites that mushroomed up endlessly in the capital, as investors launched, championed, funded and occasionally pulled out of their various projects and development sch...
