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“I don’t knohy that is,” he said “I don’t have any enemies on Mars That I know of”

Bobbie shook her head and Alex noticed again that she was a rehed and iven the circumstances

“My guess,” Bobbie said, “is that it was less about who you are than who you’re connected to”

“Holden?”

“And Fred Johnson And ether with Avasarala She shipped on the Rocinante for a while”

“For about a o”

“I remember I was there,” Bobbie said “Still, one way or another, the ht I was reporting so to me And, even better, the idea scared them”

“Don’t ift horse in the hty long teeth,” Alex said “Did you tell theation?”

“No, I’m not ready to do that”

“But you think this was related”

“Oh, hell yes Don’t you?”

“It’s what I’h Across the hallway, someone shouted words Alex couldn’t oin’ to do about it?”

“Only thing we can do,” Bobbie said “Keep digging”

“Fair enough So What exactly are we looking at?”

Bobbie’s expression sharpened The problem, she said, was ships The Martian Navy was the newest, best set of ships in the solar syste, with tech in the ns into older frames Both fleets had taken heavy losses in the last few years Whether you called Avasarala’s influence pro, and what she’d found was interesting