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“I don’t know I think so”

“Then kill it If you can’t, help Arid Cut it out of the daain and then turned to A to hier to silence her, and she closed hertoward the Behe for the OPA, but as long as everyone thinks we are, they’re the team least likely to shoot us”

“What can you tell er here? Is this dangerous?” Her usual sone Open fear had replaced it

“Strap in,” Holden said “All of you Do it now”

Okju and Clip were already belted into crash couches, and Monica and Cohen quickly followed suit The entire docuood sense to stay quiet

“Cap,” Alex said His voice had taken on the alh-stress situation “The Behe laser”

Holden belted himself into the co ships within their threat radius It turned out to be all of them The ship asked hiood as mine, honey”

“Huh?” Nao up the weapons?”

“No,” Holden said

“Oh, I’m really sorry to hear that,” Alex said “Weapons syste at anyone?”

“Not yet?”

Holden told the Roci tosystem as hostile and was relieved when the system actually responded The Behemoth shifted to red on the display Then, after a ht, he told the ship to luroups If they wound up fighting with one ship in a group, they’d be fighting theht between Fred Johnson’s two-kilo Martian navy And beyond the Martians, the Ring

“Okay,” he said, desperately trying to think of what to do now They were as far fro spot as it was possible to be in the solar systeer than their ship He doubted he could outrun three fleets and all their torpedoes for two months Or two ?”

“Down,” A”

“Do we have any way to tell everyone that the broadcast wasn’t us? I will happily signal full and complete surrender at this point,” Holden said

“Not without turning it back on,” A to contact us,” Holden said “The longer we don’t answer, the worse this will look What about the weapons?”

“War to us”

“Can we pull power on those too?”