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“Is there anything we can do?” Anna yelled at Holden

“Sounds to me like you’re in some shit there yourself, Preacher,” Holden replied His voice eary Sad “Unless you’ve got the bridge access controls nearby, I’d say you should concentrate on your own probleh the offices, but it was sporadic A petulant potshots Monica was staring at her, waiting for her to issue another order Soe

“Set me to broadcast on the Radio Free Slow Zone feed,” Anna said In the end, talking was all she had to offer Monica nodded at her and pointed a small ca from the offices of Radio Free Slow Zone to anyone on the Behe, so our plan to shut down the reactor and get everyone back ho as well We have people trapped in the external elevator shaft, and they can’t get onto the bridge

“So, please, if anyone listening to this can help, we need you Everyone on this flotilla needs you The people dying right outside your door need you Most of all, the people we left behind on Earth and Mars and the Belt need you If the captain does what he’s planning, if he fires the laser at the Ring, everyone back home will die too Please, if you can hear me, help us”

She stopped, and Monica put down the camera

“Think that ork?” Monica asked

Anna was about to say no when the wall comm panel buzzed at her A voice said, “How do you know that?” A young voice, fe Earth if we attack the Ring, how do you know that?”

“Clarissa,” Anna said “Where are you?”

“I’e I’ your broadcast”

“Can you open the door and let our people in?”

“Yes”

“Will you do that?”

“How,” Clarissa repeated, her tone not changing at all, “do you knohat you said?”

A ator of two solar systeot all this inforhost that no one else can see It wasn’t a particularly coot it while he was on the station”

“So he told you that this would happen,” Clarissa said, her tone doubtful

“Yes”