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“Sounds rough”

“I’m aIt was cal

“Does anyone actually like her?” the pilot asked

“No,” Bobbie said al asked “Oh hell no And she keeps it like that That shit she pulled with Holden,him around like she owned it? She’s always like that The secretary-general? She calls him a bobble-head to his face”

“And what’s with the potty mouth?”

“Part of her charm,” Bobbie said

The pilot chuckled, and there was a little slurp as he drank so

“I may have misunderstood politics,” he said And a moment later: “You like her?”

“I do”

“Mind if I ask why?”

“We care about the sahtful note in her voiceShe cleared her throat and walked into the galley

“Where’s Holden?” she asked

“Probably sleeping,” the pilot said “The e’ve been keepin’ the ship’s cycle, it’s about two in the ”

“Ah,” Avasarala said For her, it wasto be a little aard Everything in her life seeet through the vast blackness of the vacuu to want awith everyone on board as soon as they’re up,” she said “Bobbie, you’ll need your forain”

It took Bobbie only a few seconds to understand

“You’ll show the to sit here and talk until we figure out what exactly it is they know on this ship It has the bad guys worried enough they illing to send their boys to kill them,” she said

“Yeah, about that,” the pilot said “Those destroyers cut back to a cruising acceleration, but they aren’t turning back yet”

“Doesn’t matter,” Avasarala said “Everybody knows I’ to shoot at it”

In the local athered again Rather than bring the whole powered suit into the galley, she’d copied the stored video and given it to Naoht and well rested apart fro to Bobbie, and the botanist, who looked like he ht just be permanently exhausted

“I’m not supposed to show this to anyone,” Avasarala said, looking pointedly at Holden “But on this ship, right now, I think we all need to put our cards on the table And I’o first This is the attack on Gany that started it all off Naomi?”