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“So what are orking on here?” he asked, less because he cared than that it would give him a few extra seconds to think and his brain wasn’t at its best

“I’ve got aout,” Sa or I can take twenty hours and put up a workaround”

“And the conduit’s for the workaround?”

“Is”

Bull lifted his fist in the Belter’s equivalent of a nod and then turned his attention to the boy Gareth was young and he was tired and he was an OPA Belter, which h any kind of real ure Sah before she’d called for backup

“All right, then,” Bull said

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“I understand,” Bull said “You can go Just help ht he saw the ghost of a smile in the corners of Sa Pleasure at the weariness in Bull’s voice or at Gareth’s confusion, or ht he was really clever

“I talk to the guys on the other ships so a ship back I’ll see if I can’t get you a ride as far as Ceres anyway”

Gareth’s oldfish Sa it close to speed up the turn and then extending her ar on the straps

“You kno to do this?” Sa conduit,” Bull said

“Security can lose you?”

“Shift’s done,” Bull said “I was just heading for ht, then,” Sath at the end, and I’ll have someone join it up with Marca’s I’ll coood,” Bull said He was spinning just a few degrees each second and he let the e was still there, but it was sinking under a layer of e so because it was beneath hi his off-shift to do the same work Bull could feel the attention of the other welders on the it out, and the air between theo if you want”

The boy shifted, getting ready to launch himself back across the bay and out into the ship Bull tried to reravity He was pretty sure he could do it, but he’d have to start slow Then Gareth’s shoulders cupped forward, and he kneouldn’t have to Bull started taking off the straps, and Gareth moved forward to help him