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“Why are they on default?”
“Because there’s nothing in the the locks on all the empties never made the top of my to-do list Is this really the time?”
“Sorry,” Bull said
“Don’t worry,” she said “Both of us under a little stress right now Just get your head down before so for safety too”
“All right, then I’ll try to get you some help”
“No,” Bull said “You don’t knoho you can trust”
“Yes, I do,” Saue in front of the children”
A voice brought hiroans of the wounded, not the professional calry Someone answered in a lower voice, and the first one came back with Do I look like I care? It was trouble, and despite everything, his first iet in the ot hurt, and if anyone did, it was hio,” he said, and dropped the connection It only took a second to stow his hand ter enough for hiht back his instincts He shifted the mech to head down the corridor, away from the voices They were Ashford’s people Ashford and whoever was backing hiht now, he wouldn’t be any use to anybody Chances were they’d just kill hiet as far as the airlock first The o more than acrashed He heard his doctor shouting now and waited for the report of gunfire If they started shooting, he’d have to go back The mech inched toward the farther door, toward the exit and what passed for safety Bull pressed the joystick forward so hard his fingers ached, as if the force would ot louder, co the wall If soive him an extra fraction of a second before he was seen The thick ain
The dooras six feet away Four Three He let go of the controls and reached out for the door a little too soon and had to inch the , and he hoped it was only fear If soiven way, he wouldn’t have known Probably it was just fear
The door opened, and he slaain The h, and he closed the door behind hiled thetrip to second level, section M
The great interior halls and passageways of the Behemoth had never seerew aler His nu to have to get soure out soet his arms inside the mech’s frame, but his elbows only bent one direction, so that seerow back, if they didn’t get the Behemoth and everyone else back out of the trap the protoht them in, he’d live like this until he died