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“Ah,” Holden said, looking crestfallen

“Why do you ask?”

“No reason,” Nao conversation”

“Daddy, I want tofu,” Mei said, grabbing his earlobe and yanking it “Where’s tofu?”

“Let’s see if we can’t find you so his chair back from the table “Co the crowd for a dark, for to a waiter as opposed to a dark, for woman came up to him with a drink in one hand and a flush on her cheeks

“You’re Praxidike Meng,” she said “You probably don’t remember me”

“U her collarbone as if to clarify what she ht after you put out the video about Mei”

“Oh, right,” Prax said, trying desperately to reht have left

“I just want to say I think both of you are just so, so brave,” the woht be drunk

“Son of a fking whore,” Avasarala said, loud enough to cut through the background buzz of conversations

The crowd turned to her She was looking at her hand terminal

“What’s a whore, Daddy?”

“It’s a kind of frost, honey,” Prax said “What’s going on?”

“Holden’s old boss beat us to the punch,” Avasarala said “I guess we knohat happened to all those fking missiles he stole”

Arjun touched his wife’s shoulder and pointed at Prax She actually looked abashed

“Sorry for the language,” she said “I forgot about her”