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“Environ,” Jojo said, his voice taking on the ti the atmosphere, sir”

“Environmental suits,” Ashford said “We’ll need environhed and launched herself across the cabin to the open access panels

“What are you doing?” Ashford shouted at her She didn’t answer

The internal structure of the Beheh it did have more redundancy than she’d expected If it had been left in its original form, it would have been robust, but the requireeneration ship had been, and some of the duplicate systeuns, and torpedoes She turned a e Without the buildup of carbon dioxide, they wouldn’t even feel short of breath Just a little light-headed, and then out She wondered whether Holden would let them die that way Probably Holden wouldn’t have Bull, she wouldn’t bet on

It didn’t matter Ren had trained her well She disabled remote access to their environle circuit

“Sir! I have atoddamn air, then!” Ashford shouted

Clarissa looked at her ith a sense of calm pride It wasn’t pretty, and she wouldn’t have wanted to leave it that way for long, but she’d done what needed doing and it hadn’t shut down the systeiven the circumstances

“How otlocal to coht as she floated back toward the door to the security station

“Can we do it to them?” Ashford asked “Can we shut off their air?”

“No,” Jojo said “We’re just local But at least we don’t need those suits”

Ashford’s scowl changed its character without ever beco a smile

“Suits,” he said “Jojo Do we have access to the powered armor Pa took from those Martian marines?”

Jojo blinked, then nodded sharply “Yes, sir”

“I want you to find four people who’ll fit in theet“Yes, sir”

“And Jojo? Anyone gets in your way, you kill theuard unstrapped and launched himself toward the hallway She heard voices in the hall, people preparing for battle We have to expect the cycle will go on, getting bigger and erous until one side or the other is destroyed Who said that? It see she’d just heard Under local control the ventilation systehtly different rhyth a few seconds closer together and lasting half as long She wondered why that would be It was the sort of thing Ren would have known It was the sort of thing she only noticed now

Ren She tried to iine him now Tried to see herself the way he would see her She was going to die She was going to die andhi And it would avenge hi about it

Half an hour later, the four people Jojo had selected ca without crashing into things difficult The cowling shone black and red, catching the light and diffusing it She thought of ot no ammunition, sir,” one of them said Jojo His voice was made artificially flat and crisp by the suit’s speakers