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“We didn’t So soure out what the new top speed is, but we’re captured and floating into that big ring of ships Along with everybody else”

“The whole flotilla?”

“Everybody and their sisters,” Sahtness of her words “No one’s under their oer now except the shuttles that were inside the bays when it happened, and no one’s willing to send the the slohen it happened Other ships, it’s worse”

How bad floated in hisabout the words refused to be asked His ness welled up in him

“First convenience,” he said

“On my way,” Sa back into a pilloanted to feel the co hilassand the open air and blue sky None of it was there None of it ever would be

Rest when you’re dead, he thought, and thuain Ashford and Pa weren’t accepting connections, but they both tookto the security office when a doctor ca, her name was Bennie Cortland-Mapu’s second He listened to her with half his attention A third of the crew had been in their rest cycle, safely in their crash couches The other two-thirds—him included—had slammed into walls or decks, the hand ter into projectiles Soravity and spinal fluid Bull wondered where Pa was If she was dead and Ashford alive, it would be a probleo tays Either everyone pulled together and people lived, or they kept on with their tribal differences and fear, and more people died

He had to find a way to coordinate with Earth and Mars Everyone was going to be stressed forto ether He needed to see if Monica Stuart and her teaed with sabotage and executed—were still alive If he could start putting out his own broadcasts, so the lines of what she’d done with Holden…

The doctor was getting agitated about so He didn’t notice when Sa there Her left leg was in an i foa for silence, and turned his attention to Saot the report?” he asked

“I do,” Sa to what she’s saying”

“What?”

Sa

“You have to listen to her, Bull You have to hear what she’s saying It’s important”