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Prax pointed at one of the doors

“This one,” he said “Look at the hinges It’s built to allow a gurney through”

The passageway on the other side arreenhouse level, but near to it It opened into a long gallery with five- and floor allowed for es Bays lined it, each, it seemed, with a research bench not so different froraduate: ses The shouting voices were louder now He was about to say as allery toward one of the farther bays A ht and angry

“… not an evacuation if there’s no place to evacuate to,” he was saying “I’ chip I have left”

“You don’t have that option,” a woh I’ve been handling you for seven years, and I will keep you in business for seven more, but you do not—”

“Are you delusional? You think there’s a toun, then began a slow, deliberate advance Prax followed, trying to be silent It had been months since he’d heard Dr Strickland’s voice, but the shouting man could be him It was possible

“LetNothing The only hope of negotiation is if we have a card to play That means them Why do you think they’re alive?”

“Carlos,” the woman said as Prax came to the corner of the bay “We can have this conversation later There’s a hostile eneht now, and if you’re still here when they coh that hatch—”

“Yeah,” Amos interrupted, “what happens then?”

The bay was just like the others Strickland—it was unray metal transport crate that went froes, a half dozen children lay un in his hand, pointed at the woman from the video She was in a harshly cut unifor that security forces adopted toIt worked for her

“We ca back over his shoulder

“Da?”