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“Okay,” she said A couple of seconds later, Amos’ eyes popped open

“Shit,” he said “Was I asleep?” His words were still slurred but now had a sort of et to the bulkhead access point in the et the pu I’ll meet you there”

“Okay,” As set into the floor to get to the inner airlock door A moment later it was open and he crawled out of view

With the ship spinning, gravity was pulling Holden to a point halfway between the deck and the starboard bulkhead None of the ladders and rings set into the ship for use in low g or under thrust would be oriented in the right direction Not really a proble with one useless leg difficult

And of course, once hewould reverse

For a moment, his perspective shifted The vicious Coriolis rattled the fine bones inside his ears, and he was riding a spinning hunk of metal lost in permanent free fall Then he was under it, about to be crushed He flushed with the sweat that cah scenarios to explain the sensations of the spin He chinned the suit controls, pus into his bloodstrea his and pulled hi a plastic bucket with tools and supplies he was yanking out of drawers and lockers

“Nao Do we have any cameras left in there?”

She ative, then said, “I’ve got systems shorted out all over the ship Either they’re destroyed, or the power is out on that circuit”

Holden pulled himself over to the deck-mounted pressure hatch that separated the ht on the hatch blinked an angry red

“Shit, I was afraid of that”

“What?” Naos either, do you?”

“Not fro That’s all down”

“Well,” Holden said with a long sigh “The hatch thinks there’s no ate actually blew a hole through the bulkhead, and engineering is in vacuuo bay’s in vacuuo bay door is broken,” Naoe in a fking pear tree,” Aet the dao outside and take a look at it”

“A hiled bulkhead to the access panel where As first”

While Amos used a torque wrench to unbolt the access panel, Holden said, “Actually, Naomi, pump all the air out of the machine shop too No atmo below deck four Override the safeties so we can open the engineering hatch if we need to”

Amos ran out the last bolt and pulled the panel off the bulkhead Beyond it lay a dark, cra

“Oh,” Holden added “Might want to prep an SOS if we can’t get this fixed”