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“Try it now,” Nao at it

“Nope”

“Maybe…” she said and ,” Corin said, her voice harsh and buzzing over the radio He’d never heard her voice when it wasn’t on a suit radio He wondered whether it would have that sae of the platfor tricked his brain into thinking there was an up and down again

Looking through his gunsight’sup the shaft as fast as their cheap environnize them yet Bull wasn’t with them

“Try it now,” Nao the space behind the marines for pursuers He didn’t see any

Naomi climbed out of her access panel and floated over next to hi on The h speed, flipped at the lastfeet first to come to a rapid stop They pushed off and landed next to Holden, sticking to the floor with h their faceplates now, and recognized the sniper, Juarez, and a dark-skinned wootten

“We’ve lost the hold point,” Juarez said He clutched his long rifle in one hand and a fresh ,” to his partner

She checked her harness and said, “Three”

“Report,” Holden said, slipping intoto He’d been a lieutenant in the navy Juarez was enlisted The training they’d received about who gave orders and who followed them in combat died hard

“I took out one hostile with a headshot, I believe a second was neutralized with our re explosives No intel on the other two They may have been injured or killed by the explosion, but we can’t count on that”

“Bull?” Corin asked

“He was holding the explosives That second kill was his”

“Bull,” Corin said again, choking up Holden was surprised to see her eyes filling with tears “We have to go get hiative,” Juarez said “The elevator has beco we do to rerades our defensive position”

“Fuck you,” Corin said, taking an aggressive step toward Juarez, her hands closing into fists “We don’t leave hirabbed her by her weapon harness and yanked her off the floor, then spun around to slao out of her in a whoosh over the radio

“Mourn later,” he said, not letting her go “When we’re done Then we rabbed his wrists in her hands, and for one heartstopping ht hirappling match with the stocky security officer But she just pulled his hands off her harness, then pushed herself back down to the floor