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“Oh, that” He looks one last tihter and turns off the holopad “Sure we can’t keep hier?”

“I wish We’ll be in Gold territory in five days Time to see if he’s on board”

“And if he’s not?”

“Then you get to space him And we burn for Mercury”

Pebble finds us in the hall on our way to the chute down to the fourth deck She looks tense “We have a problem”

We find Colloway hovering over a holoDisplay in the sensor room on the second deck Clown stands behind hi on?” I ask

“Tell him what you told me,” Pebble says

Colloway rubs his te around on the recreation rooames, he looks exhausted “So, you know this ship has an internal natures”

“Sure”

He brings up the blueprint of the ship Hust the decks I see Winkle’s cool signature on the bridge, Thraxa’s hot signature as she trains endlessly in the gynatures side by side in one of the stateroo to Bone City Who is that?”

“There’s twenty-four of us,” Colloway continues, counting off the figures one by one Many are still in their bunks “Ten Golds in the cells”

“Then what’s the probleot shit to do”

“Last night I couldn’t sleep…”

“Youon people”

“So I synced into the ship and I saw this” He rewinds the blueprint to the ht “Count them”