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“And because it’s this ten u to reet scared” She shook her head “Who knows? The son of a bitch has been off in his own private systeot their nuts handed to the
up against whatever artifacts he found there Maybe it made him stupid”
“Doesn’t change e have to do,” Drummer said
“It doesn’t,” Avasarala agreed “I hate this part You have a clear succession? Santos-Baca went doith her ship too, and even if you turn that ugly , one of the EMC bastards is as likely to throw sooes badly, the last thing we’re going to need is a long, angry coot the conch”
Drummer felt a blaze of annoyance, but pushed it down The old wo around trying to find so she still had control over
“We have bylaws,” Drummer said “And it won’t matter If I eat a stray torpedo, Albin Nazari takes over”
“That whiner? He’s just gotten used to Santos-Baca’s chair, and then to get yours too? He’d be like a five-year-old driving a mech loader”
“I’ll be dead,” Druive a fuck”
Avasarala’s laugh was short, surprised, and joyful “I don’t hate you, Camina I hate almost everyone these days, but I don’t hate you”
“I’e,” Dru to win”
In the sches: battleship, s a city could be In the display, it was slightly paler than the other green dots that were its fellows Guard of Passage had a position that reat cities of the union with their druht as anchors for the fleet Cities that had become battleships
“Coffee?” Vaughn asked, and Drummer waved him away
The control room was lit like a theater—diraphic output Drummer had been in other battles She had studied more than that She had never seen et She was fairly certain it had never happened before
She strapped herself into her crash couch, checked the juice The chances were very slio on the burn, but if it did, she’d be ready The whole sphere of battle was less than three light-seconds across Eight hundred and fifty thousand kilometers from the twothree hundred quadrillion cubic kilo its skin If she’d been in a vac suit, the drive plu the stars It was the htly formed major battle in decades—maybe ever—and she wouldn’t have been able to see her nearest ally with her naked eye
“The enemy’s crossed Leuctra Point,” the weapons tech said, his voice calm