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“Did you readon Freehold?”

“Skimmed it”

“Three hundred people who hate centralized authority and love guns Holden’s going to insist onthem on their turf, because that’s the kind of shit he does He’ll need backup”

“Yeah,” Areed “I’ll keep an eye on him”

“I was thinkingher head toward the sick-bay hatch Not saying, She doesn’t look good A

“Yeah, okay,” A will probably shake the damn ship apart I’ll have plenty to do here”

Bobbie started to leave, then so to say it, she asked, “How er?”

“Rest of her life,” Amos said, then went back into the sick bay and closed the hatch behind him

She found Holden and Naos with powdered onions and what passed for peppers corowled as soon as she walked into the rooan slopping eggs onto it

“Enjoy, because this is the last of the real eggs until we get back to Medina,” Holden said as he dished her up

Nao on?”

“Did you guys read my threat assessment on Freehold?”

“Skimmed it,” Holden replied

“First-generation colony,” Naoot one township on it in a sericulture, but oats and chickens, but the livestock is surviving on the hydroponics too, so not the most efficient model Lithium in the planetary crust and a weirdly lot of uraniulaciers that hopefully et the infrastructure toCharter that calls for radical personal autonomy enforced by a citizen militia made up of the whole colonial population”

“Really?” Holden said “The whole population?”