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“What,” Holden said, “the fuck was that?”

Alex didn’t answer His expression was as eloquent as a shrug

“Okay, I assu in the station’s radar shadow still, since I’ to you and you’re not dead”

“Yeah,” Alex said “She see to make it mad”

“Let me see e can find out here, and I’ll call back”

“Copy that,” Alex said “Roci out”

“It’s …to be authoritative and astounded at the same ti She’d floated across the ops center to one of the consoles and orking with the tech there “It’s reading as an incredibly strong netic field focused down to a narrow beam”

“Is that possible?” the duty officer said, her voice sht

“Only if you define ‘possible’ as things that have already happened,” Nao to look at her

“So anything made of metal is vulnerable,” another tech said

“It isn’t just metal,” Holden replied, then pushed off to drift over to Nao up

“Everything has a netic field,” Naomi added “Usually it’s too weak to hettify hydrogen ato it touches will be ripped apart”

“There’s no way to defend against soravity, it was not as satisfying as collapsing into a chair would have been

“That’s what shook Medina,” Nao thrusters had to fire to hold us still”

“Holden, this is Draper,” his terminal said