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“Shit,” she said “Won’t be shooting anyone, I guess”
“If you did,” Cotyar said with a sh both of the ship’s hulls and let all the air out?”
“Nope,” Bobbie said, laying the last piece of the suit on the floor, then pulling out the tools necessary to put it all back together again “But that ned to shoot through other people wearing coh my suit here will probably also hole the ship Which means —”
“None of the security personnel on this vessel will have weapons capable of penetrating your armor,” Cotyar finished “As you say How many of my people will you ith you?”
“None,” Bobbie said, attaching the fresh battery pack Avasarala’s techs had provided to the back of the arht froet started, the obvious counterplay will be to grab the undersecretary and hold her hostage Preventing that is your job”
Cotyar sain There was no humor in it
“As you say”
It took Bobbie just under three hours to assemble and field prep her suit It should have taken only two, but she forgave herself the extra hour by reot to corew Some of it was the natural tension that caht her to use it To let the stress force her to recheck everything three times Once she was in the thick of it, it would be too late
But deep down, Bobbie knew that the possibility of violence wasn’t the only thing twisting up her insides It was iet what had happened the last time she’d worn this suit The red enae was pitted and scraped froh-speed skid across Ganye on the knee re off the helmet’s faceplate made her think of the last time she’d spoken to Lieutenant Givens, her CO, just before the monster had ripped him in two
When the suit was finished and lying on the floor, opened up and waiting for her to climb inside, she felt a shudder run up her spine For the first time ever, the inside looked small Sepulchral
“No,” she said to no one but herself
“No?” Cotyar asked, sitting on the floor next to her, holding the tools he thought shethe asseotten he was there
“I’ this back on,” she said
“Ah,” Cotyar replied with a nod, then put the tools into the toolbox “As you say”