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“What happened?” Tilly asked, and gripped a handhold on the wall like sheshe could find, which turned out to be a rack of weapons

The security officer looked Tilly up and down once, and see her what she wanted was the easiest solution “Hell if I know We decelerated to a dead stop in just a shade under five seconds The darabbed us only grabbed the skin of the ship and didn’t give a shit about the stuff inside”

“So the slow zone changed?” Tilly was asking Anna looked over the guns in the rack, her e The rack was full of pistols of various kinds Big blocky ones with large barrels and fat azines Smaller ones that looked like the kind you saw on cop shows And in a special rack all their own, tasers like the one she’d had on Europa Well, not really like it These were , with a er power pack than hers In spite of their non-lethal purpose, they erous Her old taser at home had looked like a small hair dryer

“Don’t touch those,” the security officer said Anna hadn’t even realized she was reaching for one until he said it

“That could mean a da she was reentering the conversation after having missed a lot of it

“Hundreds on the Prince,” the security officer said “And eren’t going anywhere near the old speed liet no broadcasts fro in the office around her Dae reports and security feeds and orders Anna couldn’t understand much of thes Military jargon One snized James Holden in one, then another version of hinize any of the other people until the sculpture of the girl that Naomi, Holden’s second-in-coirl,” Anna said before she’d realized she was going to She still felt stoned, and suppressed an urge to giggle

The security officer and Tilly were both staring at her

Anna pointed at the screen “Julie Mao, the girl from Eros The one the Rocinante blamed Maybe she did this”

Both the security officer and Tilly turned to look at the screen A few seconds later the iirl disappeared and was replaced by soet Jaation room for a few hours, and then we’ll have a hed

“Is that who they blamed?” she said when she’d finished “That isn’t Julie Mao And there’s no way Claire’s out here”

“Claire?” Anna and the officer said at the same time

“That’s Claire Clarissa Mao Julie’s little sister She’s living on Luna with her mother, last I heard But that’s definitely not Julie”

“Are you sure?” Anna said “Because the executive officer froirls on uests at our house in Baja Brought the kids out during the summers to swim and eat fish tacos And that one is Claire, not Julie”

“Oh,” said Anna as her drug-enhanced irl she’d seen in the galley, the explosion of the UN ship, the ridiculous e from Holden’s ship, followed by the protestations of innocence “It was her She blew up the ship”

“Which ship?” the officer asked

“The UN ship that blew up The one that made the Belter ship shoot at Holden And then we all went through the Ring and she’s here! She’s on this ship right now! I saw her in the galley and I knew there was so with her She scaredbut I didn’t because ould I?”

Tilly and the securityaith her, and herat her like she’d gone insane