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“All right,” Bull said “You two go take a rest I’ll watch the shop until the others get back You two have done more than—”

The security desk chier to Serge and Corin, and pulled himself over to the desk

“Sale syllable, short and sharp, carried a weight of annoyance and anger that verged on rage “I need you to come down here”

“You can call whoever you want,” a round “I don’t care, you hear? I don’t care anymore You do whatever you want”

Bull checked the connection location She was down near thea sidearm?” Bull asked

“I won’t stop you, sweetie,” Sam said

“On my way,” he said, and dropped the connection

“Gehst du,” Corin said to Serge “You’ve been up longer I’ll keep the place froe asked, and it took Bull a second to realize theto ravity wasn’t the sa up, Bull had been dead tired pretty often, and the sense of weight, of hisoff the bone like overcooked chicken, hat desperate fatigue meant He’d been off of Earth for more years now than he’d been on it, and it still confused him on an almost cellular level to be worn to the point of collapse and not feel it in his joints Intellectually, he knew it left hi that he could do rit against his eyes, the headache that bloomed slowly out from the center of his skull, the mild nausea None of them had the same power, and none of them convinced

The corridors weren’t empty, but they weren’t crowded Even at full alert, with every tea ass, the Behe hihtaway like he was in a drea at the handholds and ladders as they passed and adding just a touch of kinetic energy to his float the way he and his men had back in his days as a a anymore either

He found Sa rigs floated near the wall, fixing lengths of conduit to the bulkhead with showers of sparks and lights brighter than staring at the sun Sale fro Belter floated near her, his body at an angle that pointed his feet toward her Bull understood it was an insult

“Bull,” Sae “This is Gareth He’s decided laying conduit’s icky”

“I’ out the word so violently it gave hiht years on Tycho Station! I’ technician”

The other welders didn’t turn fro He looked at Sa him in for help had been hard for her or if it was part of how she expected hi with Pa That it had been the shortest detention on record didn’t pull the sting of being caught up in his political struggles Either way, she’d escalated the problem to him, and so it was his now

Bull took a deep breath