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As he watched, the ed off to who knehere by whatever power set the speed li
“We h”
“Yeah,” Miller said
“This is what you wanted, isn’t it? This is why you did it”
“You’re giving roaned as they started to wake The docuht even be dead Holden couldn’t tell without unstrapping, and his body wouldn’t allow that yet Miller leaned close to the screen, squinting at it like he was searching for so Holden pulled up the sensor data A host of information flooded in Numerous objects, clustered within a million kilo Not even starlight
“What are they?” Holden asked “What’s out there?”
Miller glanced down at the display His face was expressionless
“Nothing,” the dead man said And then, “It scares the shit out of e said, floating gently by the security desk “Security or fking babysitters?”
“We’re whatever gets the job done,” Bull said, but he couldn’t put much force behind the words
It was thirty hours since the Behee, Casi off duty at the desk, coordinating the recovery The rest of the security staff had been in ad hoc tea the physical resources to free a dozen people trapped in storage bays where the air recycler hadn’t booted back up, arresting a couple of mech jockeys who’d taken the chaos as opportunity to settle a personal score
The lights were on all across the ship now The da double tihtened and on edge, and Ja into whatever was on the other side The security office smelled like old sweat and the bean curd ht in yesterday For the first day, there had been an unconscious effort to keep a consistent physical orientation—feet toward the floor, head toward the ceiling Now they all floated in whatever direction they happened to fall into It seemed almost natural to the Belters Bull still suffered the occasional bout of vertigo
“Ah “Lube for the machine, us”
“Least fun I’ve ever had with lube,” Corin said Bull noted that when Corin got tired, she got raunchy In his experience, everyone dealt with pushing too hard differently Souess, it was all loss of inhibition Wear down the façade with toounderneath came out