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In order to get there, they’d crawled out froth of the station fro at the stern They’dcenti until Bobbie reminded theested they all shut the fuck up instead of getting the team killed After that, she’d been alone with the sound of her own breath, the smells of old rubber and soht, Amos on her left, and the dock spiked with ships a quarter of a klick before them Past that, just the blackness of the slow zone, and the killing nothingness beyond the gates

The drue from the brief battle with the Storht patch foam Medina had taken more than her fair share of licks in her life, and today wasn’t going to be any better

They’d pulled out every trick that any of Saba’s underground had up their sleeves Stealing the welding rigs, uncrating the hidden caches of weapons, coh Ever since the Laconians had coate, s for this moment Maybe since before that, if some o

f thelers

As they passed over the last of the drum, Alex split off He had to make his way almost a third of the way anti-spinward from the Storm to reach the Rocinante She told herself it wasn’t the last time she’d see him as if she kneere true Then with a flick of her fist, she’d directed the insertion tea form of the destroyer

The plan was to lure the Gathering Stor claet on, Bobbie and Amos would breach the hull and lead an insertion and take the Stor its reactor, sabotaging its controls, or steering it out toward the nothingness between the gates was going to be a gae of the ship’s internal workings, i she could make a solid plan

The secondary objective was to get her people off the Stor ships The tertiary objective was to get away herself

Alex reached zero, and Bobbie thought she felt a little treh the Storm as the Roci blew her cla the body of Medina as cover Two of her netic locks flickered amber, and then safely back to red

It was a day with a lot of ways to die packed in it Like Alex, she couldn’t keep fro She stayed braced, her feet against the hull, knees bent The ainst her forehead Thatto sweat

“How you holding together there, Babs?” Amos asked The radio

“I’ll be fine once they get this ship out of dock”

“Yeah Not really leaping into action, are they?”

“We were hoping to catch them flat-footed”

“That’s true,” Amos said “Still”

“Maybe they didn’t notice,” one of the others said