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“That’s not the plan the way I heard it,” Amos said

“Amos, listen to me Stand down Don’t blow the ship And if anyone down there kills another Laconian, I will shoot the you Understood?”

“Yup”

“Stand by If I need you to go back to plan A, I’ll know in about a minute”

Davenport looked from her to her teao shallow She waited

“Thirty seconds, Mister Davenport,” she said

“You joined the wrong side, gunny,” Davenport said “You should have been one of ours”

Twenty-fiveStoro airlock Their arether, and thethrusters on their vac suits didn’t have any canisters A their seals one last tiency beacons to their knees The Laconian co officer watched Bobbie noith the intensity of soe

Aet his attention “Can you breathe in there? Getting good air? ’Cause if you’re not, this is the ti”

He nodded once, a perfect physical representation of resentment

Outside the Stor the schedule Nao to the s for the gates to reopen But so to the well-established places like Bara Gaon Co to their ability to evade any traffic et them to safety There was still a little o, and then the Storht, Medina’s sensors would be deep in their routing seizures for at least four hours And the prisoners had enough air for ten A six-hourfor pickup seeh

Aave her the thumbs-up, and Bobbie nodded him on He undid the tether froh to pull himself to a stop beside her Bobbie cycled the lock, and when the outer door opened to the darker-than-space of the slow zone, she touched her radio

“Okay,” she said “Let’s see if the controls work the way they said”

“Copy that, boss,” her new Belter pilot said

The Storently to the side The prisoners see Out beyond thelowed like a star, and then, passing through a gate, went out