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“What about you?” Cortez asked He put his hand against her back “Do you believe in redemption?”

“No,” she said “Just sacrifice”

“Mao,” Ashford barked from the other room “Get out here”

Clarissa floated to the doorway The captain looked grayer than he had before There elling around his eyes that would have been dark circles if they’d had any gravity

“Captain?”

“You understand how all this crap is wired up”

“A little,” she said

“I’ve got so I need you to do”

Chapter Forty-Seven: Holden

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he elevator shaft that ran outside the entire two-kiloth of the Behemoth’s dru control over the ship, most of the ancillary systems were down or unsafe to use The primary elevator was locked at the shaft’s e near the top of the shaft, but it could only be activated if the first elevator was removed from the tracks and locked down So instead of a coe was a two-kilo steel-and-cera the midpoint

It could be worse Fro into, it didn’t look like Ashford expected anyone to coe that way He’d fortified his position at the coone out about the attack on engineering But so far they hadn’t reinforced the elevator shaft at all They’d been expecting to hold both ends, and apparently it hadn’t occurred to theht be losing his mind under the stress of the situation, but he wasn’t a stupid man He’d had a notably mistake-free career as an OPA captain up to that point, which hy he’d seemed the safe choice to Fred Johnson Holden couldn’t count on his easy But if Nao it wouldn’t e everyone there would be blissfully asleep

Holden had the broadcast fro at low volu to the flotilla about the need to shut down all the power in a back-and-forth sort of interview forround So see it would work that way And, so far, the sounds of fighting seeht Amos was probably bored

They’dthe way they’d hoped The thought left Holden increasingly terrified

Without warning the wall-mounted LEDs in the shaft went out Holden turned on his suit lights but didn’t slow his clie double shadow on the bulkhead when Corin’s suit lights ca,” he said, just to have sorunted at him noncommittally “I see the lift”

Holden tilted his torso back to shine the suit lights farther up the shaft The bottom of the elevator was visible a hundred meters ahead as a wall of metal and composite