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“Who’s our contact?” Naomi asked quietly

“Hmmmm?”

“I assume Fred has people here,” she replied under her breath as she sroup of hvariety They stared back at her with speculative looks on their faces Holden un, but the lances before they turned a corner and disappeared froe for us to ave me some names But communication with this moon has been so spotty he wasn’t able to—”

Holden was cut off by a loud bang from another part of the port The explosion was followed by a roar that gradually resolved into people shouting The few people in the corridor with thean to run, some toward the noise, butat the people running toward the co on,” Holden replied “So let’s go see”

They quickly beca corridors of Gany toward the noise and along with the groave of people running in the same direction A tall, stocky side theth of black rinned at Naomi and tried to hand her one She waved it off

“’Bout fookin’ time,” he yelled in an accent Holden couldn’t place He held his extra club out to Holden when Nao the club

“Fookin’ bastahds flingin’ the victuals up, and the prols jus gotta shove, wut? Well, fook that, ya uzzlas!”

Spiky Redhead howled and waved his club in the air, then took off at a faster run and disappeared into the crowd Naohed and howled at his back as he ran When Holden shot her a look, she just smiled and said, “It’s infectious”

A final bend in the corridor brought the almost identical to the one ruled over by the Supitaya pn s, except that this roo toward the loading dock The doors to the dock were closed, and a s to hold the mob back When Holden arrived, the croas still cowed by the security officers’ Tasers and shock prods, but froer in the air, he could tell that wouldn’t last long

Just behind the front line of rent-a-cops, with their nonlethal deterrents, stood a small cluuns with the air of ive them permission

That would be the corporate security, then

Looking over the room, Holden felt the scene snap into place Beyond that closed loading bay door was one of the few rehters loaded doith the last food being stripped frory

Holden re to escape a casino on Eros when it went into security lockdown Reuns Remembered the screams and the smells of blood and cordite Before he knew he’dhis way to the front of the crowd Naorabbed his arm and stopped hi really stupid?” she asked

“I’ shot for the crihteous tone even as he said it

“Don’t,” Naoun on anyone”