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“Cap, there’s a tunnel coht just before the pressure door,” A to one knee to cover the unexpected corridor

It didn’t appear on theafter the station specs had last been updated Modifications like that ht It wasn’t a good thing

“Okay,” Holden said, pointing at the thin woman with the machine pistol “You are?”

“Paula,” she said

“Paula, this is your intersection Try not to shoot anyone that doesn’t shoot at you first, but do not let anyone past you for any reason”

“Solid copy on that,” Paula said, and took up a position looking down the side corridor with her weapon at the ready

Arenade off his harness and handed it to her

“Just in case shit goes down,” he said Paula nodded, settled her back against the wall A point, moved toward the pressure door

“Nao mechanism “Pressure door, uh, 223-B6 Pop it”

“Got it,” she said A few seconds later, Holden heard the bolts retract

“Ten meters to the next mapped intersection,” he said, then looked at the Pinkwater people and picked one gruff-looking older et there”

The estured at Aht hand and began counting down fro the door, his assault rifle at the ready

When Ah the door as A

Just another ten meters of corridor, dimly lit by the few LEDs that hadn’t failed in the decades since its last use Years of micro-frost melt had built a texture over the surface of the walls like dripping spiderwebs It looked delicate, but it was raveyard

A to the intersection and the next hatch, his gun ai right as he kept it aie, the reflex to cover every possible ingress point to their position having become automatic over the last year