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“According to Chrissie, it ain’t salvage”

“I liberated one, then I was going to get oneto connect to”

“Could use it like a disposable,” Auration information “Get you access to feeds anyway”

“Does it matter?”

“Well, if you don’t think it does, then maybe not”

She sighed There were tears in her eyes and a smile on her face “We did it We made it safely to Luna Just like we hoped”

“Yeah”

“You knohat I reallythat actuallyThey fed roup thing where we could talk about our childhood trau that mattered I couldn’t work I couldn’t talk to people outside the prison I was just being and being and being until sooner or later, I’d die and they’d put someone else in my cell”

She leaned forward, her elbows on the workbench She’d burned the side of her thuun, so “I won’t go back there”

“Peaches, there’s no there to go back to And anyway, I’m pretty sure Chrissie knows you’re on board here She’s not pushing the issue, so as long as we stay cool and act casual —”

Her laugh was short and bitter “Then what? You can’t take o on the Rocinante I tried to kill Holden I tried to kill all of you And I did kill people Innocent people That’s never going away”

“Inin,” Aain could leave you feeling a little antsy, but we all knohat you are What you did Including all the shit you did to us This isn’t new territory We’ll talk it through Work so out”

“I’m just afraid that if he doesn’t back your play, they’ll send me back, and —”

A some shit here, Peaches Lot of folks seeain There’s no back, and it ain’t just the real estate The government that put you in prison only sort of exists any billions of people die in the next little bit Making sure you serve your whole term doesn’t , and there’s still a thousand solar systems out there to fuck up the e fucked up this one Because what you’re doing right now? Yeah, you’re worrying about hoould go for you if none of that happened And I’ at the facts”

“What facts?”