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“What do you want froo out there?”

A thick exasperation twisted Miller’s expression

“What the hell are you hearingyou know is soht up until you’re prey” He stopped, staring at Holden Waiting for an answer When Holden didn’t respond, Milleron his face made Holden think of the times he’d watched the cop shoot people He opened a cabinet by the bed and took out his sidearun at Miller yet “But be honest, if I shot you, would you even die?”

Miller laughed His expression became almost human “Depends”

The door opened and Miller blinked out Nao a bulb of water

“You awake?”

Holden nodded, then opened the cabinet and put the gun away His expression ht?”

“Yeah He vanished when you opened the door”

“You look terrified,” Nao under the covers next to hiht… I don’t knohat I thought But ever since he knew about the gate, I keep trying to figure out what he really means It was easier when I could think it was some kind of static That it didn’t… that it didn’ther ar

“We can’t let Monica and her crew ever know about this,” he said Naomi’s s everyone everything,” she said

“This is different”

“I know”

“What did he say?” Naomi asked “Did ithe says is about death”

Over the course of the folloeeks, the ship fell into a routine that, while not coial Holden spent ti the questions What was his childhood like? Loving and co the half-aware girl who’d been the proto to Venus? No, rets?