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“Should I be offended on your behalf?” Naomi said

“Nope,” Holden said “You should come eat”

Saba leaned forward as Holden sat “This is good One thing we can say about Medina, the ingredients are always fresh”

“True,” Holden said “But they’re usually still fungus and yeast Vat-grown bacon is … well, it’s just its own thing So, Saba, I had an idea I want to talk to you about …”

Chapter Twenty-Two: Bobbie

We can’t place a physical monitor on the data connection to the Laconian ship,” Holden said, just the way she’d told hi theuess They atching Holden intently It felt weird that the role of the great Ja played by the Holden she knew Apart fro, the two didn’t haveand outgoing signal without detection Mirror the data”

“For for?” a tall, stick figure of a man said His name was Ramez and he was in Medina Station’s technical support depart to Saba, he had the run of the ship, their insider on this mission Bobbie didn’t like hi their coffee grounds”

“Decrypting it is a later proble too many details of the plan away to any one person Bobbie had a decent idea, but she was still working out the details of how to get the decryption codes The fewer people knew the details, the less likely it was to get out before she was ready “Right noe just want to get as much as we can so that we can decrypt it when the tiet the signal without anyone knowing it’s happening”

“Gotta look inside the pipe without touching the pipe Que pensa?”

“I’ve brought along my tea,” Holden said, nodding to Bobbie and Clarissa “Captain Draper?”

Bobbie gave him a wink only he could see Say what you would about the urehead with panache

Bobbie walked to the front of the room and pulled up a volumetric map of Medina on the wall display behind her

“The Nauvoo was intended as a generation ship,” she started

“Fuck is a ‘no view’?” a Belter woman asked The others chuckled

“Read so history once,” Saba said to her, then nodded to Bobbie to continue