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Soht as well have been on another ship Druers, the possible profits, and the certain loss Each time, she found herself at the same conclusion

She thanked Tur, using the social conventions of conversation to signal hio She even shook his hand toher temper before As she walked hinal loss She closed the door behind him and went back to her desk

Vaughn answered the connection request like his finger had been hovering over the button

“Ma’am?”

“The Teo back to Medina, or route through Medina back to Laconia,” she said “We’re going to find out what it says”

“Yes,to do that?”

“Saba,” she said “The risk is worth it now We’re reopening communications with Medina”

Chapter Thirty-Five: Singh

An ie tank on deck four of the engineering section,” Overstreet said He was reading from a report that scrolled by on the monitor wrapped around his thick forearm “We’ve recovered very little of the device itself, but what few pieces we have indicate it was made with material common to this facility It’ll be difficult if not impossible to track the exact source”

Singh sat and listened to the report and tried to look present and thoughtful But the truth was, histo escape a predator He found he only processed about half of what Overstreet was saying His hands were shaking so badly that he didn’t trust hilass of water on the desk in front of him He kept them under the desk, where Overstreet wouldn’t see theer was inescapable because it was true

“The danificant Total loss of the prie The thrust fro thrusters to fire, and the shaking knocked down several structures in the habitat cylinder The network-traffic station for the Storm was completely destroyed A backup environed, and will probably not be repairable”

“The Storh said My first command The symbol of Laconian power at Medina

“This is prelier to skip down the report on his aret of this attack, so e and the loss of one sensor array feels like we got off light”

Singh’s hands felt like they were shaking hard enough to be visible, even under the desk, so he gripped his thighs with both hands and held on tight

“Preliminary casualty reports?”