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“The returns aren’t as good as they ought to be,” she said “We’ve been able to get eighty-eight, ninety percent recovery, but I don’t think we broke eighty-five on the Freehold run”

“Worth looking at,” Aot any suspects?”

“I want to take a look at the water filters I know they’re supposed to be the best there is without retrofitting to a straight gel syste what’s on the label”

He closed his eyes and the Rocinante’s recycling syste … yeah, could throw off the pressure going into the recyclers Might be enough to drop the reclaes He pictured what else it would do

“We should take a peek at the feed lines,” he said

“Look for distention?” she said

He grunted Peaches scowled and nodded once, the way she did when they’d cos about the Roci that he knew better than she did, but those were few and far between And mostly about the weapons systems She didn’t like those, and it had an effect on how ht about them There were conversations he had with her that he couldn’t have with anybody else

That didn’t keep the thoughts fro in his throat “You think Holden’s okay?” she asked

“Is or he isn’t,” Aer A little tighter He wasn’t sure why

“I wish there was so more I could do,” she said

“Nao, we’ll do it”

She finished the last nail and tossed hiht it in the air, folded it closed, and put it under his pillohere it would stay Peaches got another couple of her pills and sed theh between her bunk and the one above her to get a decent punch going, but he knehat it would feel like to do a straight-kick to her ribs Or her head Push her back against the bulkhead, then the next kicks, she wouldn’t be able to avoid He wasn’t going to do it, but the thoughts came anyway

“You need some sleep?” he asked

“Little”

“You should try to eat some afterward”