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“Hey,” she said “This whole act-like-we’re-in-a-battle thing where we aren’t supposed to get out of our crash couches? I’d really appreciate it if you could ease up enough to let usalerts?”

“No,” Saion of space with different, y’knos of physics and stuff? Makes ht behind us,” Bull said “Hold tight until we see how that shakes down”

Sam smiled in a way that expressed her annoyance with hiet the teensiest bit paternalistic sometimes, Bull You know that?”

A new alert popped up by Sa into the co here I’ll get back to you”

“I’ll be sitting here in ,” she said

He flipped over to the incoe It was a broadcast A Belter woman, with black hair pulled back froave Bull the iun the broadcast and would be again as soon as she was finished, looked into the caata, executive officer of the Rocinante I want toour ownership of the Ring was a fake Our communications array was hijacked, and ere locked out of it The saboteur on board has confessed, and I a a datafile at the end of this transmission with all the evidence we have about the real perpetrator of these cri a short documentary presentation on e’ve discovered in the time we’ve been here that Monica Stuart and her team produced I want to reiterate here, Captain Holden had no , he had no intention of doing so, and none of us had any participation in or knowledge of the bo Un or on any other ship We were here solely as transport and support for a documentary team, and pose no intentional threat whatsoever to any other vessel”

Serge grunted, unconvinced “You think they fragged hied him or tied hi in it Why wasn’t the Rocinante’s captain the onethe announcement?

“We will not surrender our ship,” the Belter said, “but ill invite inspectors aboard to verify e’ve reported, with the following conditions First, the inspectors will have to comply with basic safety—”

Five more communication alerts popped up, all fro into the teeth of a vast and o down squabbling

“—unacceptable We de—”

“—what confirmation you can provide that—”