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“Oh, that’s disgusting,” she yelled at it If her suit had been opened up to the outside, getting that protomolecule shit on her would have been the least of her proble to wash this crap off?

It cocked its head and regarded her curiously It poked again at her ar to find a way in to her skin She’d seen one of these things rip a nine-ton co in But it seee her for so, flexible tube burst out of its er Brown goo dribbled out of this new appendage in a constant streareen She spun up the barrels to test it and it worked Of course, her suit was still telling her to “please stand by” when it caot bored and wandered in front of her gun, she could get so at her araps, periodically shooting brown liquid into the It was like being threatened by a serial killer that was also fuer’s horny insistence

“Oh, to hell with this,” she said to it She was about through with letting this thing grope her while she lay helpless on her back The suit’s right ar when it orking also resisteda one-arlove She pressed up anyway until she felt soht have been in her arm She couldn’t tell yet, because she was too wired for pain to set in

But when it popped, her arainst the monster’s head

“Buh-bye,” she said The monster turned to look curiously at her hand She held down the trigger until the a The creature had ceased to exist froround, exhausted

REROUTE SUCCESSFUL, her suit told her REBOOTING, it said When the subli and found she couldn’t stop She shoved theIt’s a really long walk back to the ship”

Chapter Fifty-One: Prax

Prax ran

Around hiles at the center to her than Gany burn, Prax had to pay attention to keep hi with each step A, and fast The shotgun in the man’s hands remained perfectly level

At a T intersection ahead, a woman appeared Dark hair and skin Not the one who’d taken Mei Her eyes ide and she darted off

“They knoe’re co a little

“That probably wasn’t their first clue, Doc,” Amos said His voice was perfectly conversational, but there was an intensity in it Soer