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“Breakfast?”

“God, yes”

Her back protested when she stood, but only a little Her mind felt focused and alive and wholly her own for the first tie from Marcos had coood But…

Jim’s hair was in wild disarray, but he looked handso?” he asked

“Don’t know,” she said

“Would coffee improve whatever it is?”

“Couldn’t hurt,” she said

In theaboutthe other and both clearly aware of it and having fun Alex grinned to her and Jim when they sat at the breakfast bar, and then poured the espresso with thick brown crè the heat and the rich complexity hidden inside the bitterness

“You’re looking better,” Alex said

“Feeling better Thanks Bobbie, the ht? Navy?”

“Ships Weapons Supplies The whole thing,” Bobbie said “I guess we knohat happened to them now”

“No colony ships, though?”

The big wo for any”

“What’s up?” Jim asked

Naomi swirled the espresso in her little bone-colored cup, watching the whorls for ships come in two flavors Military vessels from Mars that the Free Navy have now, and then colony ships that wenton their way out to new systems And I make sixty, maybe seventy percent matches with the Free Navy ships to oldcolony ships I can’t see a pattern in what syste And I don’t knohat hijacking theained for Marco”