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Anna couldn’t help but laugh When Tilly raised an eyebrow, Anna explained, “We flew across the entire solar system, almost to the orbit of Neptune, a world so cold and distant from the sun we didn’t even knoas there until Bouvard noticed that so Uranus around”
Tilly’s eyebrow crept higher “Okay”
“And e get here, who kno far from the sun and with billions of kiloe to be hot and crowded”
“Thank God the Belters thought to bring this rattletrap with the to enter her tent She flopped down into a folding chair and started ruine trying to stuff everyone onto the Prince? We’d be twelve to a bunk there Lovely culture, these Belters”
Anna pulled her cassock off and laid it over the edge of Tilly’s cot Underneath she earing a white blouse and a knee-length skirt that wasTilly pulled a plastic bulb of lemonade out of the cooler and handed it to her, then poured herself a glass of so as clear as water that smelled like hospital cleanser When Anna took the bulb she was surprised to find it cold S on its surface She put the cool bottle against the back of her neck and felt a delightful chill run down her spine
“How did you arette, then paused to down her first shot “Apparently it’s easy for the people in at around”
If Tilly was spending a thousand dollars a bottle for the antiseptic she was drinking, Anna didn’t want to knohat a steady supply of ice was costing her They drank in co wonders for Anna’s heat exhaustion Tilly brought up the idea of finding so to eat, and they wandered out of her tent in search of a supply kiosk
There were people walking through the crowded tent city carrying guns
“This looks bad,” Tilly said It did These weren’t bored security officers with holstered sidearriuns carried in white-knuckled grips The group , and they were looking for soed at Tilly’s sleeve “Maybe we should try to get people to go back to the church tent to wait this out”
“Annie, if the bullets start flying in here, even God can’t oing on”
Anna reluctantly followed her in a path that paralleled the ar to look in tents or quietly question people Anna began to feel very frightened without being sure why
“Oh,” Tilly said “Here we go”