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“This is what I’ve been doing for years”

“And you canthis way?”

“Sure, if you don’tto kill you now and then”

“Never minded before,” Erich said “Okay, that’s it We’re at the end of the run I got that one hiccup froo”

“If we’re in this brick long enough to recycle the water, so”

“That’s what I was thinking too You want ot scripts and a checklist”

“Yeah, why don’t you let me take —”

The hand ternize caot company”

“What’re you seeing?” Erich snapped

“Three trucks”

“Okay, fuck it,” Erich said “I’ up the reactor”

Aar The lookouts at the ere all standing and tense They knew The servants were still o ahead and run the check first,” he said “It’d be a shaive the folks in Verht show”

The silence was harsh Amos didn’t understand what the probleain “I don’t take orders from you Burton”

Amos rolled his eyes He shouldn’t have said that on an open channel So many years and soface “I was thinking of it more as expert opinion,” Amos said And then, “Sir”

“Noted While I take o help hold the peririnned Like he wasn’t already on his way to do that Erich went on “Walt, start getting the passengers in the ship Clarissa can assist with the start-up”