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“They knew she’d be picking up signals fro had ever needed to before,” Bobbie said She zoomed in on Medina’s comm array “So the comm system ison a commercial or military vessel”

Ra hands “We don’t even usefrom far away in here”

Hewas ever more than half a million klicks from Medina The physical boundaries of the space prohibited it

“True, but the equipnal sniffer sensitive enough to track a single photon through a fiber bundle ain on the technical map behind her “But we can’t just steal it Claire?”

Clarissa pushed herself out of the corner she’d been hiding in and came to stand next to Bobbie She wore a mechanic’s jumpsuit with the naht bun With her gaunt cheeks and sunken eyes, it made her look severe and impatient

“Even though this array isn’t in use,” Clarissa said without preamble, “it’s still hooked to the pris, alaro off up in ops So we need to put the circuits into a diagnostic shutdown before we physically yank the parts”

“Fuckonians all over in ops now, ninita,” Ra all the time, them”

Clarissa nodded her agreeet you onto the ops deck to shut down the panel long enough for us to do our work,” she said “And also if you call ain, I will hurt you”

“Is that right, ninita?” Ra

“No,” Bobbie said, stepping toward hiear will be delicate work I can’t risk her daet out there” Bobbie took another step into Ramez and stared down at him “So I’ll hurt you Mao’s my second on this Don’t make me beat some respect into you, ninito”

She glanced over at Holden He looked shocked, and maybe a little sad She wondered hoould have handled it, back before It was so strange to be doing all this in the same room with each other

Ramez threw a look to his buddies on the crates No one stepped up to back hiet on with it circular motion with his hand

“Sabe,” Ra to the side the way abashed pri, que?”

“Sa sa,” Bobbie replied, then switched the screen from the volumetricprecise ti to happen Mao and I will be on the outside of the station forout there, because the Laconian sniffers will almost certainly pick it up”

“I’ll be calling up to ops using an unlocked hand ter at thea time when Daphne Kohl is the duty officer She knowsto do withoutto explain it Co is heard by everyone”