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“Katria, get ready to blow on ency suits for evac iot one minute to dress”

Bobbie heard the Velcro ripping sounds of vac suits being pulled off the walls and hastily donned A

“Put your suit on, big man,” Bobbie said

“You’re really gonna blow it,” A a challenge He didn’t sound like anything Bobbie involuntarily braced for violence

“Yes,” she said

Without changing his expression, Amos squared up on her, hands at his sides

“I guess you really want that captain’s chair back, huh Babs?”

Before she knew she was going to do it, Bobbie had already grabbed his collar and yanked hi boots off the floor, then slaainst the bulkhead

“If we had h her teeth, “you and I would be dancing right now”

Aot time”

“Katria Blow it,” Bobbie said, and the world ended

When Katria’s charge went off, it demolished the control panel and ripped a seventeen-centie tank Bobbie didn’t know the exact size of the tank, but she had a vague en coraas again, all at once

The initial blast of expanding gas was deafening The shock wave ripped apart bulkheads and piping All the liquid oxygen in those pipes joined the explosion as additional expanding gas Froency compartment, it sounded like someone had set off a tactical nuke in the next room

And then, as was inevitable, soh to produce a flame, and the initial blast of air became fire

The entire eency shelter shuddered, then canted over onto its side The reinforced and blast-hardened bulkheads didn’t break, but thethe compartment to the deck were sheared off by the force of the blast It took seconds that lasted for hours