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Noas Pa’s turn to smile She looked tired She looked old

“You didn’tfor aze ju off the screen Her lips pressed thin and the connection dropped Bull had to fight not to request another connection, just so he could knohat happened But there wasn’t time He had to hurry He tried connections to Ruiz in infrastructure and Chen without getting replies He wondered how otten fro let Ashford pass under his radar But he’d been so busy…

He tried Sam, and alot a probleot security already”

“And engineering,” Saht now? Funny you should ask Engineering Ashford left about five s he’d like uns and scowls That man’s lost his shit, Bull Seriously He used to be a prick, but… He wantsYour comm laser trick? He wants it overclocked”

“You got to be kiddingto nuke the way ho humanity from the alien threat,” Saht,” Bull said, even though nothing about this was all right

“And he’s not at all happy with you Are you someplace safe?”

Bull looked up and down the corridor There wasn’t cover And even if there was, he was onemech and no spinal cord past the middle of his back

“No,” he said “I don’t think I aot no place safe to go,” Bull said

Someone on the other end of the connection shouted and Sa to scras have been a tiny bit disorganized Had a little trouble with the rules of physics changing on us Maybe you noticed”

The first voice shouted again Bull couldn’t hear the words, but he knew the tiotten bulbs of coffee for whoever was stuck in the security office Garza was one of theirs Bull wished he’d gotten to know the man better Especially after the catastrophe, he should have been checking in with his staff

This was his fault All of this was his fault

Sam looked back down at the screen At hiet scarce Head for the second level, section M There’s a bunch of eht zeros”