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“That’s interesting,” Avasarala said “Not the part where he’s reconnecting with his ex-wife, though No one ever tries that without see like an asshole”

“Right?”

“Well,” Avasarala said, then looked up at so cup frohed with pleasure “Thank you forwith me, Mr Burton”

“Oh, it was my pleasure”

“Please keep in mind that my name is pretty closely connected with the Rocinante, Captain Holden, and his crew at this point”

“So?” A

“So,” Avasarala said, then put her steaain “If you’re about to do so I’ll need to cover up later, I’d appreciate a call first”

“You got it, Chrissie”

“Honestly Fucking stop that,” she said with a smile

The screen went black, and the woman who’d stopped him at the port came in Amos pointed to the screen with his chin

“I think she likes me”

The street level view of New York wasn’t all that different frorown up on Lots of tall buildings, lots of automated street traffic, lots of people stratified into two distinct groups: those who had someplace to be, and those who didn’t The es and back again at shift change They bought things fro currency aon the excess created by the productive, and adding to it where they could with under-the-table industry too sovernment to notice

Drifting ahosts, invisible to anyone not froroup The ones who lived in the cracks Thieves looking for an easy score Pushers and con artists and prostitutes of every age group, every point on the spectruender and sexual orientation The kind of people A and frowned back, seeing A hih for it to get to anyone who’d co to knohere he fit in their ecosystem

After walking for a couple hours, getting used to the

feel of the gravity and concrete beneath his feet, Amos stopped at a hotel he picked at randoed, and that was ers and dra With the shares he’d cashed out, Amos didn’t have to worry about how much the hotel would cost; he just asked for a rooed him