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Holden hadn’t had much chance to look around the rest of the hospital After leaving the docks he’d hurried straight to his crew’s rooh the halls and intersections toward the exit, he had a chance to look over the full extent of the dae had caused

Every bed in every room was filled with injured people, and so areas Most of the injuries were contusions or broken bones, but some were more severe He sawin traction with serious spinal injuries But e, there was the stunned look of shock on every face The sort of expression Holden associated with the recent victims or witnesses of violent crime The Rocinante had tracked and disabled a pirate slaver ship a fewprisoners pulled from her hold had looked like this Not just hurt, but robbed of hope

Someone with a doctor’s unifor their progress, but exhaustion robbing hiht, Holden heard the electric popping sound of a cauterizing gun, and the s,” he whispered to Nao

“None of us shoulda come here,” Alex said

Doors and corners, Miller had warned hi attention Where the ambushes happened Could have been a little ing apologetically and bursting into a cloud of blue gnats

Amos, half a dozen meters ahead, caht Before Holden could cross half the distance to the turn, a pair of OPA goons walked into the intersection froled up in the rolling bed One of them smirked and half turned to his companion Holden could almost hear the joke he was about to make about two people to a bed In preparation, he sh But before the jokester could speak, his co after that happened quickly

The pair of OPA thugs scra over their shoulders Holden shoved the rolling gurney into their thighs, knocking the for a weapon One of the thugs un down off his shoulder and rack it, but Naoroin His partner stepped back, finished getting his hands on his shotgun, and pointed it at her Holden started to run forward, knowing he was too slow, knowing he’d watch Naoununether They sluers A his left shoulder

“Sorry, Cap,” he said “Got a little too far ahead there”

Holden leaned against the corridor wall, legs barely able to support hiies Nice save” He nodded toward the shoulder that Aht that was broken”

Amos snorted “It didn’t fall off Plenty left in here for a couple of idiots like this” He bent down and stripped the two fallen men of their weapons and ammunition A nurse walked up behind Holden, a plastic case in her hands and a question on her face

“Nothing to see here,” Holden said “We’ll be gone in a minute”

She pointed at a nearby door “Supply closet No one will notice them in there for a while” Then she turned and went back the way she came