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ere, Cap?”

“Yeah,” Holden said “Can I borrow that wrench?”

Ah that Holden had to readjust his grip on the handhold to stop it

“A that back?” Amos asked

“Maybe You get Katria to the shelter Everything goes forward, just like we planned”

Amos’ face went still as a ot it”

Holden squared himself on the wall’s footholds and launched down the corridor In an instant, Amos and Katria were behind hi into why that ht be true He was pretty sure it wouldn’t hold up

It only took about twenty seconds to find a panel with a manual fire alarm He flipped the case open, pulled the switch down, and a Klaxon started screa One

In the next corridor, he picked a thin copper pipe, set the wrench around it and pulled until it popped Green fluid that stank like vinegar and acetate spewed out into the hall Soister the pressure drop and raise a flag That o He heard voices shouting from the main deck They weren’t raised in panic, not yet More like they were trying to be heard over the alarm He passed a radiation alarm and tripped that too—three—then headed toward the voices

Naomi would understand, even if the others didn’t She knew hih to follow his mind without soEither put it where no one could see it or leave it in plain sight with a thousand others just like it If the alar If a bunch of alar and dock levels, and it was only one, uards had panicked It would just be more noise in the chaos Unremarkable

In the wide space leading to the transfer hub, half a dozen people were clinging to a wall, each of thenized the electrical tech they’d passed going in

“Hey,” he shouted, waving his wrench “Can’t you people hear? Get to the shelters!”

It was enough to start the He picked another corridor at random and launched himself down it He broke three electrical conduits, tripped another fire alarm and another radiation If he could make his way down closer to the reactors, there’d be uards there The wrench was unwieldy andthe conduits and pipes open was starting to leave his shoulders and pal He ducked into an access crawl and pulled ter exchanges out of the wall That had to be good for at least one alert He floated out into another hallway The engineering deck was drowned in a cacophony of blaring alarms He pulled himself toward a ladder When the station was under thrust, it would lead doard the drive cones

It took the Laconians about two er Holden was trying to fit the wrench behind a support strut when two Marines in power ar as the actuators fired Holden started to raise his hands, but the first one slammed into him before he had the chance The i he was sure of, there was a barrel pressed just above his left eye and his ribs hurt badly when he tried to breathe

“You just fucked up, old rowled