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He had to ask "Naomi, are you okay?"

BB twirled out of the es and placed his avatar on the seat next to Phil ips, kil ing a delicate irls, I’ve had an absolute pig of a job concealing al that voice traffic between ‘Telcam and Osok col eagues about the co"

"Okay, so we’re heading back under friendly fire to save soot coordinates for hi?"

"Yes, I do," said a gravel y Sangheili voice on the heleant Geffen But I do not require you to save me "

BB kil ed the link "Shit," Mal said "That’s ok, " BB said peevishly "This tinkering has got to stop"

"So we’re extracting an Elite who doesn’t want to leave" Vaz wondered why they couldn’t just wait and see who survived the battle and then contact hi to be fun"

Naoers and kil ed the 3-D display

"That’s where I come in," she said "Jul ‘Mdama didn’t want to leave either"

VADAM, SANGHELIOS Tart-Cart carved through the atmosphere without so much as a shiver and dropped to skim over the sea, so low that she churned up a skirt of spray

And there was Vadaht, complete with the new section of coastline that hadn’t been there when the day started On the 3-D, the edge of the MAC crater looked like a sed involuntarily every ti hie-heads and wouldn’t lose a wink of sleep about kil ingcomment had upended him

"Here’s the captain for you," BB said "Remember, every mike’s a live mike"

"Ha bloody ha" Mal felt his face burn He steeled hi"

"Don’t worry, Staff," Osher conversation with hi to refuse extraction, or just sulk?"

"You better prep for resistance You’re going to run into more problems, too The Arbiter’s buddies have started to co like hedging your bets"

"‘Telcaet those past the Arbiter and laid up on New Llanel i You uarantee the Arbiter’s al ies won’t take pot shots at you either"

Vaz grus siood old days"

"Yeah, we’l assume they’re al hostile, ma’am So where exactly is he? Other than these coordinates?"

"Holed up in an ar shots with the Arbiter’s forces"

"And I’ve isolated his co the network I’ it via Aine now She’s not happy, but she can’t tel what I’ve done Only that she can’t access solitch in the ship"

"So, in AI terht?" Mal asked

"It’s for her own good"

"Okay, if you can’t extract ‘Telcam, terminate him," Osman said "In case the Arbiter captures hiood"

"Understood, ma’am See you on New Llanel i Kilo-Five out"

It was so easy to say yes Mal didn’t need to check out Vaz’s reaction, but he did glance at Phil ips

"Can you cope with that helmet?" Mal asked

Phil ips stil looked a bit swaiven Adj to play with to keep him occupied "Not real y

There’s tooof the eye control"

"BB, can you strip down the data and e it for hi on the seat, parcel-style He litter for a al, Mal?" Phil ips asked

"Do you al, but maybe moral, too I mean, isn’t this how Halsey started on her slippery slope?"

"I believe in playing by the sa You can’t do that with little kids"

"What about kids who can shoot you?"

"You shoot back," Vaz un in their hands andthem use it"

It occurred to Mal that al of theram except the one person it had most affected Naomi never joined in the debates about its ethics, and she wasn’t joining in now Osht Mal stil didn’t knohat to do for the best

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