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Her hand terrabbed a bathrobe, wrapping herself tightly and double-knotting the stay before she accepted the connection She was years past flashing someone over a hand terminal, no matter how much she’d drunk The connection cae that flashed up was a ed man with ill-advisedWhat have you done that they make you work so late?”
“Moved to Atlanta, rin He was the only one who ever called her miss She hadn’t spoken to him in three years “I’ve just coed for you Contact immediately I tried your assistant, but he didn’t answer”
“He’s young He still sleeps sometimes It’s a weakness Stand by while I set privacy”
The moment of friendly banter was over Avasarala leaned forward, tapping her hand terreen
“Go ahead,” she said
“It’s fro order on James Holden”
“Yes?”
“He’s on the move He made an apparent rendezvous with a local scientist Praxidike Meng”
“What’s Meng?”
In Atlanta, Ameer transitioned srated to Ganymede with his family when he was a child Schooled there Specializes in partial-pressure low-light soybean strains Divorced, one child No known connections to the OPA or any established political party”
“Go ahead”
“Holden, Meng, and Burton have left their ship They’re arroup of private-security types Pinkwater”
“How many?”
“The on-site analyst doesn’t say,are we at?”
Aht seconds,else, I can send theotiated with the private security, either a last- was exteroup proceeded to an unused corridor complex and forced entry”
“A what?”
“Disused access door,is it? Where is it?”
“Should I query?”
“You should go to Ganymede and kick this sorry excuse for an on-site analyst in the balls Add a clarification request”
“Yes, host of a smile Then, suddenly, he frowned “An update Oneon Gany they’d found Either way, thisWhile Aested the new update, Avasarala scratched the back of her hand and reevaluated her position She’d thought Holden was there as an observer Forward intelligence That , this utterly under-the-radar botanist, the OPA ht already know quite a bit about Bobbie Draper’s monster Add the fact that Holden’s boss had the only known sample of the protoan to take shape