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“I get it So what do you want to do?”
“I want,” Holden said, sliding ait That would help a lot”
“Cap,” A that kills me has already killed everyone else I was born to be the lastYou can count on it”
The panic and fear didn’t leave Holden They squatted on his chest now just the way they had before But at least he didn’t feel so alone with theet rid of this stoay”
The wait inside the cargo bay airlock was endless as the inner door sealed, the pumps sucked all the air out of the rooeted and rechecked his gun half a dozen tie shotgun cradled loosely in his arms The upside, if there was an upside to the wait, was that with the cargo bay in vacuum, the airlock couldthe creature to their presence
The last of the external noise disappeared, and Holden could hear only hiht ca them of the null at a hardline into the airlock terminal Radio was still dead all over the ship “We’re about to go in Kill the engines”
“Roger that,” Alex replied, and the gravity dropped away Holden kicked the slide controls on his heels to turn up his netic boots
The cargo bay on the Rocinante was cramped Tall and narrow, it occupied the starboard side of the ship, craineering bay On the port side, the same space was filled with the ship’s water tank The Roci was a warship Any cargo it carried would be an afterthought
The downside to this was that while under thrust, the cargo bay turned into a ith the cargo doors at the bottom The various crates that occupied the space latched on to mounts on the bulkheads or in sonetic feet With thrust gravity threatening to send a person tuo doors, it would be an iravity, it beca hallith lots of cover
Holden entered the roonetic boots, and took cover behind a large metal crate filled with extra rounds for the ship’s point defense cannons Alex followed, taking up a position behind another crate two meters away
Below theainst the bulkhead that separated the cargo bay froo ahead and open it up,” Holden said He jiggled the trailing line of cable to get it unhooked froave it a little slack
“Doors opening now,” she replied, her voice thin and fuzzy in his hel open, exposing several square meters of star-filled blackness Theor didn’t care