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“You have a fan,” Naomi said from the bed

“Not everyone in the OPA hates us,” Holden replied,the unconscious ood work for them for over a year People know that”

Amos handed Holden a coazines Holden tucked the gun into the waistband of his pants and pulled his shirt down over it Auns onto the gurney next to Naoet in a gunfight,” Holden warned Aain

“Yeah,” Auns”

The hospital exit was a short distance down the right-hand hallway, and suddenly they were outside Or as outside as you could get in the Behemoth’s massive habitation drum From outside, the hospital structure looked cheap and hastily assembled A football-field-sized shanty lass A few hundred e of a city of tents spread out like acne on the dru toward a urney, and A at anyone who looked at the them scurry away and not look back

As they approached the squat metal structure, a door opened in the side and Sa a hand at them impatiently A few minutes and some twisty corridors later, they were in a small, empty metal-walled roo his left arainst it

“Ow,” he said

“You hurt?” Sa the door behind the the card to Naooing on?”

Sah her red hair The streaks of black already in it told Holden she’d been doing a lot of that “Ashford retook the ship He’s got sos from the UN Navy, the Martians, and some of the i that his lack of contextto waste tiuns are Ashford’s?”

“Yep He’s taking out anyone who helped Bull or Pa with the original mutiny, or, y’know, anyone he thinks is a threat”

“From the way they tried to shoot us, we’re on that list,” Naomi said

“Definitely” Sam nodded “I haven’t been able to track down Pa, but Bull called me, so I know he’s okay”