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“No”

Holden pulled himself down into the crash couch next to hers and buckled in He was trying to play it cool, but the truth was the longer they ithout presenting a defense or at least a denial to the fleets outside, the more risk there was that someone would find a way to destroy the Roci, slow zone or not The fact that Naoure it out only added to the worry If whoever was doing this was clever enough to outs problem, they were in a lot of trouble

“What’s the next plan?” he asked, trying to keep the impatience out of his voice Nao a break fro ladar sweeps of all the other rings that make up the boundary of the slow zone Just to see if one is different in soht bulb in the head There’s nothing else to do, and I wanted him out of my hair while I come up with another way to attack this comm probleone through every other syste for ra else thatit,” Nao her head toward Monica without actually looking at her

“I feel like I’ve got the shit job here”

“Oh, please,” Naorin “You love the attention”

The deck hatch slid open with a bang, and Amos came up the crew ladder “Motherfucker!” he yelled as the hatch closed behind hi

“When I peeled that twitchy power circuit open in the head, I found this little bastard hiding in the LED housing, sucking off our juice”

Aed to catch it before it hit him in the face It looked like a s off one end He held it up to Nao out to take it froht that’s it,” Amos bellowed “So the software hijacker onto our system every time we boot up”

“So at Holden, but he’d already gone past that and was unbuckling his restraints

“Are you are-caliber pistol out of his pocket and held it against his thigh In the ravity it would shove Amos around if he fired it, but surrounded by bulkheads that wouldn’t be toofrom confusion to fear

“One of you hijackedfor whoever is doing this to us Whoever it is should really just tell me now”