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ByteMe: you too

ByteMe: and seriously, things r only going to get more intense be calm be smart

ByteMe: stay safe, shnooku silly

COUNTDOWN TO LINCOLN INTERCEPTION

OF ALEXANDER FLEET:

58 hours: 41 minutes

Date: 07/27/75

Text: alone

I’m not ready to die

If the Lincoln catches us, she’ll destroy us There’s simply no other reason she’d chase us for months on end if it wasn’t to hide the last of the evidence Wipe out the only witnesses with a chance to tell the universe BeiTech attacked another corp, hijacked their illegal processing plant and oh yes killed thousands of people

That, or we’re on the lary ex-girlfriend and they have unfinished business He’s totally the kind of guy who’d leave the toilet seat up

I thinkworse Weirder, anyway The sleep dep is really getting to me But I can’t miss a chance to peek inside AIDAN and help out Byron, and thatonto a new ID every time a tech takes a break And in the spareabout e ure it this way: WUC’s operation on Kerenza was illegal, so they can’t tell the UTA we stopped reporting in When Kerenza was attacked, our alarh the closest waypoint, and then on to Heimdall Station But the only ship that showed up--the Alexander--was on patrol nearby Which means our SOS never made it out of the system And if Heimdall didn’t send the cavalry, that has to mean the station itself was taken as part of the BT attack Which ht be dead I am not okay with that

I am NOT OKAY WITH THAT

We’ll never make it as far as Heimdall, says my brain, and if we do, Heimdall’s been taken anyway It says nobody made it off the Copernicus alive--or not alive in any way I’d recognize I lie in hts to sender They show up, and try to get their claws into me, and with a mental NO I push the at the loose threads along the edge of ers my nails turn blue

But deep down, I know it The truth Nobody’s co to probably isn’t safe And there’s nobody I can trust in this equation except Ezra and Byron But Byron’s hands are tied, and E’s along with hi to find out exactly what happened to the Copernicus, and why, it has to be me

If we had to, could the Hypatia outrun the Alexander?

Is anyone who made it off the Copernicus still sane? Or even alive?

Are they alive, at Heis left to do

No way I aed

Ezra loves me I mean, maybe I’, but I don’t think so I don’t care if it is, I need hiry at him because he didn’t want to leave Kerenza … seeether It was right We should have fronted up to the problem, not screaht for it, instead of giving up and h to tell hiet to tell him in 7 minute bursts

I try to reach out and connect, to remind him however I can, in my own super aay, that I’ dumb over there, there’s one person left who cares

Care doesn’t cover it

If I lose Ezra too, it’ll be one body blow too many