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Tears in her eyes now, glittering amid the fury

"How do you know the Copernicus medteams couldn’t have found a cure for Phobos? How do you know you didn’t kill ?"

"I do not claim to know definite outcoh to murder thousands of people? No rooenius or fate that lead hu so like you in the first place?"

"Miracles are statistical improbabilities And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark There are no absolutes in life save death"

"But you say Torrence would never have seen reason

You say TechEng would’ve taken you offline again That’s sounds pretty absolute toti of this fleet You are insects to me,

and still everything I do is to protect you Everything"

She cannot wipe her tears away She cannot spit She cannot hurt s to She is cordedfists and a clenched, knotted jaw

"I think you were afraid," she finally says "Afraid of the

I think you’re just as scared of the dark

as we tiny insects are,

and you hide it behind bullshit about

probabilities and impartiality"

She sniffs Ss thickly

Glares in defiance

"You’re afraid"

"You are wasting time, Kady"

"Fuck you"

"Time we do not have"

She turns back to the console,

haertips were fists and

the keypad my face

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But when she executes, the last of the doorway safeguards shatter

She has done it

Manual override is now available

on every door on the Alexander

The creill be able to leave their shelters Brave the passage to the bay,

and fro like rats fro ship

I aht, AIDAN," Kady says "There’s no ‘we’ here You understandto be a ‘we’ There’s just you and I"

"You and me, Kady"

I am not

"Just you and me"

RADIO MESSAGE: COMMAND CHANNEL ALEXANDER

Participants: Kady Grant, Civilian

Winifred McCall, Civilian