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“If you just want to drop the core, I can probably do that,” Naoain, and there are so Controlled shutdoould be better”
Bull s down,” Holden said “The reactor The power grid Everything”
“I know, honey,” Naorined
“Sorry”
In one of the far corners of the deck, so across the open space, serenely holding in a choke an Earther Bull didn’t recognize It occurred to hiht not be healthy
“I don’t knohat Sae the comm laser,” Naomi said “I have to do an audit before I can undo any of it And without—” Naomi stopped Her jaw slid forward She cleared her throat, sed “Without Sa to be harder This was her ship”
“Can you just take the laser off-line?” Bull asked
“Sure,” Nao it”
“And how about turning up the nitrogen in the coh that everyone up there takes a little nap?”
“I can help with that,” Ruiz said Her voice sounded a little stronger
“All right,” Bull said “Here’s e’re doing Nagata’s in charge of engineering Anything she says, you do” Ruiz nodded, too nuet the laser off-line so none of those pendejos in control can fire it Your second priority is to tweak the environmental controls on the command deck Your third priority is to shut down the ship so we can bring it back up, see if Mister Holden’s ghost is going to keep its prohing stopped hi anything up He didn’t know if that was a good sign or a bad one Corin launched herself to the control board “You and Holden head up the external elevator shaft with a handful of zip ties When everyone up there’s asleep, you two et confused and hurt theht be that Ashford wasn’t a proble himself to care one way or the other, but his body felt like he’d been awake for a week
“Why a that?” Holden asked
“To keep you out of her way,” Bull said “We’ll keep your XO safe We need her”
He could see Holden’s objections gathering like a storm, but Naomi stopped the to the Roci to shut dohatever we left on,” Holden said, shrugging “I’ll help hiravely He illing to pretend they’d struck some kind of co and recognized the tieant Verbinski’s voice “Excuse ing and releasing The others all floated freely in the air, but with three-quarters of his body dead and numb, Bull kneouldn’t be able to maneuver It was like he was the only one still constrained by gravity