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“What would you call her, right?” Soren said with a disar? Was this all a joke to him, Avasarala and Bobbie and the e popped into her head of snatching the s hi shape Her hands flexed involuntarily

Instead, she said, “Madam Secretary seemed to think it was pretty iain “Don’t worry about it, Bobbie Seriously I kno to domoment

“Solid copy on that,” she said

Bobbie was yanked froht in an unfaht she could see was a faint pulsing pearly glow from her hand terminal, all the way across the roo like an atonal cacophony and beca phone calls when she went to bed Soes and tried to crawl across the bed toward the tered her face-first toward the floor, her half-asleep body not coed to avoid breaking her head open at the cost of a pair of ja even louder, she continued her trek across the floor to the still glowing terminal When she finally reached it, she opened the connection and said, “If someone isn’t dead, someone will be”

“Bobbie,” the person on the other end said It took Bobbie’s fuzzy head a lanced at the time on her ter to drunkenly upbraid her or apologize It certainly wouldn’t be the strangest thing that’d happened over the last twenty-four hours

Bobbie realized he was still talking, and put the speaker back up to her ear “—is expecting you soonest, so get down here,” Soren said

“Can you repeat that?”

He started speaking slowly, as though to a dim child “The boss wants you to coain “Right now?”

“No,” Soren said “Tomorrow at the normal time She just wanted ”

The flash of anger helped wake her up Bobbie stopped gritting her teeth long enough to say, “Tell her I’ll be right there”

She fu it to a panel, which lit up at her touch A second touch brought up the roootten her a s distance of the office It wasn’t e roo space and bedroom, a smaller room with a shower and toilet, and an even smaller room that pretended to be a kitchen Bobbie’s duffel lay slumped in the corner, a few items pulled out of it, butreading and hadn’t bothered to do anything after that but brush her teeth and then collapse into the bed that pulled down fro to wake up, Bobbie had a sudden lasses she hadn’t even known she earing were snatched away, leaving her blinking in the light Here she was, cli out of bed after three hours of sleep to meet with one of the most powerful women in the solar systeotten her quarters shipshape and that she really wanted to beat one of her coworkers to death with his brass pen set Oh, and she was a career overnence had been et back to Ganyiest idea who that soht be

The abrupt and crystal-clear vision of how far off the tracks her life see and sleep deprivation returned, leaving her with only the disquieting feeling that she’d forgotten to do so important