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“I onlywoman Nice voice Had lots of etI know Monica’s got a gig doing this doc about you and the Ring Da that”

“Son of a bitch,” Monica said, clearly as surprised by this revelation as anyone else That actuallywoman with all the money?” Holden asked Aun at anyone anymore Cohen’s tone didn’t have a hint of deception in it He sounded like a ot a name, but I can sculpt her pretty easy”

“Do that,” Holden said, then watched as Cohen plugged hise of a woman slowly formed It was all one color, of course, and the hair was a sculpted lump, not individual strands But when Cohen had finished, Holden had no doubt about who it was She was changed, but not so irl

Julie Mao

The ship was quiet Monica and her two caain, and last tialley, not talking Cohen’s betrayal had taken theh it Cohen hi they had to a brig Holden had to assu

Alex was back in the cockpit After Amos had thrown Cohen into the airlock he’d disappeared back down to his o Of them all, Amos took betrayal the hardest Holden knew that Cohen’s life was hanging on whether Aet past it or not If he decided to take action, Holden wouldn’t be able to stop him, and didn’t even know if he’d want to try

So he and Naoether on the ops deck as she et the co With Cohen’s device disabled, they’d been able to reboot it without being hijacked

Nao for him to speak He could feel the tension in her shoulders from across the room But he had no idea what to say For a year, Miller had been a confused phantas Miller had said over the last year took on the weight of dark portents Prophetic riddles whosemust be teased out or risk catastrophe And Miller wasn’t the only ghost haunting Holden

Julie Mao had joined the game

Somehohile Miller had followed Holden around the solar syste on its own secret plans Julie had arranged for the Martian lawsuit that stripped hied to have a docu And now it appeared she’d engineered an elaborate betrayal that forced hihost Julie didn’t rese with very specific purpose It had access toit had in common with Miller was that it seemed to be focused on hi it had done had been with a single purpose in

A shiver crawled its way up his spine, sending all the hairs on his arht up He turned on the closest workstation and brought up the external telescopes Nothing at all in this starless void except a lot of inactive rings and the massive blue ball at its center As he watched, the ate drifted into view and joined the slowly circling ring of flotsam that orbited the station