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“No, it won’t”

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“Mars either,” Bobbie said “I think about my nephew Smart kid Book soing through university and then the terrafor project That’s his whole life He was one of the first people I knew to really get what off-world coloniesback here”

“Yeah Itdifferent,” Alex said

“Except hoe deal with it,” she said, then racked an i sound

“A hoe’re doing it all with jumped-up social primates and evolutionary behaviors from the Pleistocene”

Bobbie chuckled, and he was glad to hear the sound There was so the people around hihter himself Like if the others on his crew could be upbeat, whatever it was couldn’t be that bad He understood the flaw in that logic: if co him comforted them, and they could all drive the ship into a rock while they smiled at each other

“I heard the relief ships are here,” Alex said

“Yeah, that ood as we’d hoped,” Bobbie said around athisin operational range right around now, but the scuttlebutt is the crews are all green as hell Like first-reen”

“All of them?” Alex said

“The good crews are all back at Hungaria covering our six”

“Well Better a bunch of teenagers flying with us than just the two frigates,” Alex said “But you’ll excuseover the hill was a little more experienced”

“They probably said the sa about us e started up”

“You know they did First mission I flew solo, I almost dumped core by mistake”

“Seriously?”