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"I don't know"

"Cos out"

"If the Buggers were really couys here in the station? Or send you back to Earth? Or evacuate you to sos point to the end being really close Other things see to happen anywhere around here"

"So er world and you guys are supposed to grow up on the voyage"

"Maybe," said Bean "But the tiht after the Second Invasion"

"Well, what if they didn't find out where the Bugger home world was until now?"

That stopped Bean cold "Never crossed nals hoht, you know That's what it says in the manuals"

"What if they don't coht?"

"Light htyear, but it's still faster than anything else"

"Anything else that we know about," said Nikolai

Bean just looked at him

"Oh, I know, that's stupid The laws of physics and all that I just--you know, I keep thinking, that's all I don't like to rule things out just because they're impossible"

Bean laughed "Merda, Nikolai, I should have let you talk more and me talk less back e slept across from each other"

"Bean, you know I'enius"

"All geniuses here, Nikolai"