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A for her outside the airlock when she arrived He wore his Martian-un Prax rushed into the coet into his borrowed gear He looked like a boy wearing his father’s shoes While Aet buttoned up, Alex called down to the airlock and said, “Heading down Hang on to so herself to the deck while the ship shifted under her Amos and Prax both sat down on chairs that pulled out froo over the plan oneup the aerial photos they’d shot of the facility She patched into the Roci and threw the pictures onto a wall monitor “This airlock is our entrance If it’s locked, Amos will blast it with explosives to open the outer door We need to get inside fast Your ar to protect you fro Prax, you have the radio link Nao for a network node to plug it into We have no inforet Nao their system, the faster we can find those kids”

“I like the backup plan better,” Amos said

“Backup plan?” Prax asked

“The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and beat him until he tells us where the kids are”

Prax nodded “Okay I like that one too”

Bobbie ignored theEveryone dealt with pre-combat jitters in their oay Bobbie preferred obsessive list ood too “Once we have a location, you guys move with all haste to the kids, while I ensure a clear path of egress”

“Sounds good,” Amos said

“Make no mistake,” Bobbie said “Io is one of the worst places in the solar system Tectonically unstable and radioactive as hell Easy to see why they hid here, but do not underesti on this shit moon carries”

“Two minutes,” Alex said over the comm

Bobbie took a deep breath “And that isn’t the worst These assles launched a couple hundred human-protomolecule hybrids at Mars We can hope that they shot their entire wad, but I have a feeling they didn’t We et inside”

She didn’t say, I’ve seen it in my dreams It seemed counterproductive

“If we see one, I deal with it A away at the one you found in the cargo bay You try that shit with me, I’ll snap your aret your panties in a twist I heard you”