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“What’ve you got?” Bobbie asked
“The Pella and her little friend there cut their drives again,” Alex said “And… Hey! I think… So up!”
Bobbie whooped and Sh to co on By the time Alex had explained it all, the Pella had its drive on too, and was turning with the others Not a full flip-and-burn, but a kind of fishtail slide that kept a good fraction of theirtheive or take a few million kilometers, the Jovian system The Chetzemoka peeled off in the opposite direction Whateverthe Razorback behind
A tension Alex hadn’t been consciously aware of started to evaporate along with Bobbie’s occasional whoops and laughter The UN escort force checked in The solar flares weren’t even co with their path The Razorback’s heat sinks were coping with the radiant heat well enough Alex let himself relax
It lasted almost half an hour
“This is Naoe, please retransmit Tell Ja I have no nav control Please retransmit…”
And then forty minutes after that:
“Alex, since you’re in the neighborhood and it went so well the last ti if you’d be interested in ure out a fast burn that will getin nearly the sa to trick us, so keep your eyes open If it is Naoet there Let me knohat you think”
Alex’s jaas clenched hard enough his teeth ached He already knehat Bobbie was going to say, so instead of starting the conversation, he started quietly feeding data into the nav syste on how hard he wanted to burn and how much fuel he had left, and what telemetry said about the little ship and the convoy it broke off from The wall screens were set to ation data, he could pick out the dot of light that was her drive plume He also pulled up an audio feed ata of the Rocinante If you get this e, ple
ase retransmit…”
He could feel the disapproval radiating up fro at first, didn’t even runt or a noise It didn’t matter Alex knew When she finally did speak, it was almost a relief to have it out in the open
“What are you doing there, sailor?” Bobbie asked
“Figuring the best way to go after Naomi”
“Any reason you’re doing it?”
“Because we’re going after Naomi”