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Speaker 1: Cuffed aboard the cosmocraft nowhere blare through the coylyks at

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such a volume the base vibrated even through the muting glaze.

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Or was that just my ears? Let me kissel synth streaked, screeching,

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stabbing into my ears. My ship, I call it nowhere.

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It takes me back and forth for now. The guard says,

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I have rights, so exercise of course. My ship. I

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call it nowhere. It takes me up and down for now,

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the guards says, follow me. Oh, I'm in trouble now.

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The lights they make me anxious. The smell it makes

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me sick. The cuffs thy comp here are the worst.

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A fire needs a wig. The lights I see them

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demon The smell is fainter still, the cuffs they'll comp here.

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Don't let up when gold dogs claim they're killed Cad,

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I groaned, rolling out of the module to a light

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in the middle of the corridor, running through the ship

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to my back and TYPEE was still asleep, and the

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Great Griever knew that after all the sweat and exhaustion

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of last night, she needed a rest. I shut the

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hatch softly behind me, closing her into the module and

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shutting what noise I could out. I didn't bother with shoes,

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say we've writ The cool touch of the metal to

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my feet a jolt to the senses. But as our

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instructors had reminded us about being startled in battle back

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on Wolfthrop, that was just proof one was alive. The

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silver suitcase still hung on the hook we usually used

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for coats and colony propaganda featuring Airs with dicks drawn

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on his face. Ah. Right, we hadn't stuffed it back

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into the cranny when everyone pat it off. I suppose

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there was just one thing on my mind. Cad was

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kicked back in his seat, coffee cooled and on hand

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as he poured it directly into his mouth, extending the

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can to me. I took it with one hand and

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twisted the middle dial of the radio counterclockwise. Aunt still sleeping,

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I said, please be quiet. He swiveled in his seat

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as I slumped into mine. Oh I get it. So

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one wash it's your supersonic bat hearing or whatever, and

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the next it's your girlfriend. You invited her on board

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her Kad snapped, not a bomb, Jean. He glanced back

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at the mouth of the hall, lowered his voice. Do

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you have any idea what position I'm in. Pool hits

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my guts and I, after everything I said, they'll never

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His lip trembled. Uh. Despite everything, the lack of Nelson's

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usual morning cheer was as disturbing as it was sympathetic. Relax.

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I soothed fishing out the crew bowl. He handed me

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the tin box of flakes. Paul just needs time to

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cool off. We're all exhausted. That's just it, Jay Kad said.

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You're the only one who benefits. I mean, your girlfriend,

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the intergalactive fugitive gets a place to crash. You get

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to curl up in a ventilated sex box every night,

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while the rest of us are more concerned with the

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you know, galaxy eating weapon locked away in the cosmic

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cola bottle. You're just saying that because Pool's upset. I

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turned to the windshield. I know you see some sense

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in this. That's why you're on the fence. In the distance,

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a roiling mass of powder blue dust washed over a

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smattering of nanoplanets, the blue Wave Nebula. And for the record,

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your module could be a sex box too, if you

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just made a move already. Sage wisdom from the Earl

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of Loverland Cad snapped, you know it, I sneered, and

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there's more where that came from. We chewed in silence

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for several two long avins before Pool marched across the cockpit,

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planting themselves in their seat to my left and making

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a big point of not looking over their shoulder at

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cad aptain. They nodded. Translation Officer, I replied. The atmosphere

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was as thick as comic cow milk, a buttery spread.

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I wish someone would just slather across a piece of

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toast already and take a bite of I decided to

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break it as USh glided into their seat, a black

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blur coat drawn around her, black hair, frazzled and flying everywhere,

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not like USh at all. She hadn't slept, No, none

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of them had because of the black hole. I'm sorry,

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I said Dr Nunica. Okay, it's not fair to talk

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like I'm just your captain when I'm really your friend.

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USh swiveled in their seat, smooth out her coat. I'm

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sorry too. I was more than out of line with

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some of that stuff. It's just frustrating to feel like

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things only fall apart when we rely on our feelings.

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Everyone's paring off, and where does that leave me? Ush's voice,

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and that made everyone swivel USh never cried. I've never

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been anyone's favorite person. I know I never will be.

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It's just a lot to get used to. Hey, whoa,

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I soothed. One. Love doesn't have to be hierarchical. I

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can care about everyone equally, even if I'm being more

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physically intimate with someone else. And two, I'm not going

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anywhere USh, none of us are. Cad nodded, not even

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after Uh, you should say it, Nelson, Pool cut in.

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That is something USh was right about. It only exacerbates

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the situation to act like none of us know what's

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going on here. I don't intend to leave either, but

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if we're gonna keep living together, we should all be

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more honest about how we're feeling. It would cut down

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on emotional outbursts. You mean violent, I corrected, Still see

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over the slap. I'm sorry, okay. Pools six eyes closed

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in a rolling wave of blinks, their scales shifting with

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the airflow inside the craft. Cad, I'm sorry you had

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to hear my feelings first. From USh and Sable. I'm

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sorry I hit your girlfriend. It's just tears. Slid between

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the divits and Pool's fine face scales, adding a watery

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shimmer to the bronze shine. None of you could possibly

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understand the way I feel about what's happened to my kind.

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You keep saying that USh cut in, but I don't

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think it's true. Pool, not completely USh, I hissed, What

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was she trying to evoke? Another strong reaction? I mean it,

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USh went on, Yeah, it was hundreds of yushes ago.

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But back on Earth, people who look like how we

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do didn't exactly have it easy. Slavery, segregation, redlining. Jennie,

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you're not the only one who hurts. You know. She's right.

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Kad added, grievers are only grievers because we're not allowed

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to go home. We may not have known it was

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your father that my simar, Pool grumbled, not my father

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or mother, my Simar, my layer. It's sick that your

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own Simar would turn their hotshot on you, said. Cad

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actually said, Pool, it wasn't all that surprising. When I

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was young, after hatching during my churlish straw, my childhood travels,

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I sought them out. It was embarrassing for them. Collidizans

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are supposed to take pride in learning about the universe

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on their own with no hand holding. Mistakes are a

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mark of pride. It means you tried and failed, that

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you still tried. In human culture, said USh, that's known

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as neglect. Well, Pool made it very clear to me

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that we are not humans, said Pool. There's only so

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much to see an open space. There's lively spots, sure,

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but a lot of it is just dark matter. I

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had too much time to think, got really into watching

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human television shows, too curious kids, a father to give

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you advice, a mother to hold you and tell you

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everything will be all right. Sitcoms, I said they were

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considered a special privilege viewing back in the academy. Pool

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nodded sitcoms. They confirmed I sought out my cimar. They

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were certain episodes where long lost relatives would reunite. A

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guest star would feature. The audience would clap and awe.

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All Pool did was glare down at me and hand

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me a shovel. They said it would be our first

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bonding activity, that I would help them dig a lava

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well for the local Calids. Four feet five feet six

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ten twelve fifteen. When we were deep enough, Pool used

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a ladder to climb out and pulled it up after them. Yuzza,

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Kad exclaimed, in a thin whisper, as if praying there

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was no God with me. When I spent eight arons

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climbing out, said Pool. I was just a child, barely

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four feet tall. If that, I thought it must be

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some mistake. But when I approached Pool, they only sneered

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at me. Now you are kaleidising, they said, Now get

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out of my sight. Sheesh, and I thought an anonymous

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soup of DNA made for a dark origin. Kad was

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the first to speak up. I may not be banished,

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but I do understand having shitty parents. My own mother

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abandoned me on Talcetti when I was just out of

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thorough Buildwin Middle. That's why everyone on this craft is

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so important to me, including you Pool, so important. I

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I'm sorry if I ever I didn't know about Kimmy.

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Don't pull thrash the dashboard, pushing away to swivel in

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their chair toward Cadbury. Don't say her name, please. I

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didn't mean to shut myself off. I really care about you,

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cad the I just need time. Cad nodded. I understand.

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I won't bring her up, he said, let's just forget

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about yester wash and move on. A message came in,

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and a good customer too. He stroked his stubble. Actually

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a lot of good customers. I pulled the message deck

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up on the viz ejector, a blue tenant screen flashing

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out of the glowing blue dot embedded in the control panel.

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He was right, A who's who of our most reliable,

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most obnoxious, and most risky customers have been barred. At

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the shared Visa mail inbox, there was a backlog of

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twenty five messages. Did we launch a new ad campaign

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or something? I asked, clicking through the little library like overnight?

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You know what they say said, USh, you make a

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splash and everyone else gets wet. Trust me. Kad scowled

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at one name on the screen. No one's getting wet

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for Marshall Boners, Kad's ex boyfriend Boners, who swore his

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last name was pronounced Bonners. Was worse than a maroon

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red suits at organization on their side practiced strategic striking.

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Marshall was an orange suit. The suit dyed painstakingly ground

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from the rarest ombrex roots recessed beneath the thorn riddled

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worm infested trees out in the peripherals, bucking every law

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against gambling the colonies had ever tried to bind him in.

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This took a group of ever present hot shot toad

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and lackeys known as the bone Men, to maintain all

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clustered around the Lucky eleven casino on Pisces eleven, a

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planet coated in pink sand that it started out with

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pale white beaches where we suggested clients not screw us over,

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he ensured that they wouldn't, assigning his goons to stake

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out clients, scour every word of personal information given and

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not given. Boners dealt in information as his form of contraband,

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tips for fixed dust dismatches, known drop points for dollar

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deliveries to colony banks. What he could verify he used

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to enrich the lives of everyone on Pisces eleven. What

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he couldn't he sent the bone Men to seal up

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so as to leave no trace for the no Knocks

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to come sniffing around. Thorough ruthless, and according to Cad,

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a primely selfish lover. Hence our long absence from the

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little pink planet. Caad clicked on the message a video

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of boners and his most extravagant velvet robe flickered to life,

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the raider's grizzled voice humming out of the speaker on

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the dashboard. Oh, guylick, screw, been a while since we

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caught up. I've got enough friends around the galaxy to

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know you're in a tough spot. Could use a place

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to dock, collect yourselves away from prying guys. This could

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be arranged easily if you swing on by the luck.

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Think of it as a favor for old time's sake.

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A Nelson cad blushed as the video paused and the

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message ended. He's got some real nerve thinking I'd fall

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for that. You think it's a setup, I asked. Scrolling

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through more messages, I clicked on Steph Margarine, a customer

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we delivered to twice or so before one USh. That's

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been a considerable amount of time pouring over astro physiological

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theories with during our drops. Her message could have passed

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as a replay of the previous Hi, Kylixers, I haven't

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picked up in a while. Been thinking of trying some

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of the blueberry stuff. I hear something went down out

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in the open. Let me know if you need a

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place the dock for a few days. Have some time

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to collect yourselves without worrying about fuel. It could be

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like a favor for old time's sake. Ay I show creepy,

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said USh. They're coached, pull nodded, compromised. Still said USh

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is pull handed or a tissue. The doctor wiped her face.

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Boner's is the most connected guy in the universe. He'll

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know someone neutral to take the blunder off of our hands.

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Sh Cat hushed. Spittle sprang across the room with such

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force that USh activated her helmet. Don't say it out loud.

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We should call it the He tapped his chin, the

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faint tune of an electric guitar solo floating up from

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the radio the Boogie Woogie. USh produced the napkin from

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her lab coat that she used to wipe Nelson's spittle

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from her helmet surface. It's not gonna go super critical

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just because we mention it by name Nelson, Not to mention,

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said Pool rolling all six of their eyes. It's a

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bit diminishing to reduce a weapon of galactic destruction to

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a reference to funk music. Haven't you ever heard of

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jinxing cad shot back? Luck is fickle, better not to

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poke the beast. You know they've got you. Humans pegged wrong,

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said Pool in university. I was always led to believe

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in time, you'd get easier to understand. Tendon's chittering approached

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the little crow cat scrambling up Ush's leg to beg

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for a steel biscuit, sitting up in her lap. Me more,

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he squawked, fid more. She rooted around in the drawers

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for a cube shaped ingot slipped one to Tendon's grasping claws.

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Tendon muled its thanks, licked one of Ush's cheeks, and

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scuttled off toward the hall. Petrsite Cad called after it,

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and we all shared a laugh for what felt like

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the first time in centuries. The lighter mood wasn't broken,

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even when n Tiapee came yawning out of the corridor,

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rubbing her eyes and looking and smelling very much like

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we've been fucking Jisaran's before. Her suit was wrinkled and

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only halfway zipped, sliding off her shoulders as she leaned

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over to stroke the wild splay of feathers sticking up

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on Tendon's head. He clicked his beak, cocking his head

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as his long black tail flicked in the air a moment,

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fixing one black eye on entia apiece. Finally, Tendon blinked

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and snapped at Ant's forehead, peeking a shallow pink scratch

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above her eyes. As he screamed more into had more.

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Aunt waved him aside as he lunged at her, giggling,

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and Tenden lost interest, slithering down the corridor and out

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of sight. I dusted the loose feathers off of her

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suit as she strode in my chair, leaning down to

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kiss my neck. I didn't know you guys had a pet.

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We don't, USh, said Tendon's more like an extortionist. Aunt chuckled,

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sitting across my knees. The act drew attention to how

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she donned her spacesuit garishly gold, away from the milky

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silver plating of the dragoon ship she'd resided in the

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last year. And I hadn't. In fact, I'd forgotten to

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put on a shirt. I was grateful then, to be

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too dark skinned, to noticeably blush, to think the captain

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in their powder blue boxers, to think the heiress on

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the runaway's lap, to think all that loving last night

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after all our silly shyness. Two years ago my groin ached,

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but I'd never been so happy to hobble off to

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the med bay for an ice pack. Not now, though.

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Now there was just Aunt's soft lips grazing my ear,

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her fingers playing across my horns, the beer like draw

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of or new breath. Sure we hadn't cleaned up yet,

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but the bacteria that grew from nentyape Adams was more

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than fine with me. Waiting on your orders, Captain Pool

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piped up. Oh right, yeah, yeah, right, let's get the

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wash started. Uh, thank you, translations officer. Every time someone

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new moved aboard, there was the matter of assigning their seat.

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I was the captain. This was my responsibility, and although

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the spot at my right hand had experienced sheriff fussing over,

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that was where the first mate sat, and cad for

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now forever was my first mate. Aunt couldn't change that.

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A captain and their girl were close, but a captain

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and their first mate were closer. Next, Nelson should do

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cad d mind, cad Berry grumbled, for her highness, why not?

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Aunt took the seat beside him, stretching along the cracked

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blue leather. I have dozens of maps, do you, I nodded,

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You can load them into the ves ejector. Just don't

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judge the search history. It uh gets lonely when you're

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not here. No judgment, Aunt blushed, clicking the vice ejector

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to life and pretending not to read the search history.

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As she erased it, we can start fresh, no problem,

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new history, new mission, new name, she mused in tipeece Sable.

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Where'd you pick up that name anyway, Wolfthrop employee registry,

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I said, Hannigan's Sable. He was the library attended in

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Scout School, the only employee who had ever referred to

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me by my true name. Because of my off days

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washes long bouts of depression that left me unable to

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attend piloting courses due to my tear blurred vision, the

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library became a sort of silent sanctum, away from my

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competitive classmates and harsh instructors. Sable was a devoted atomist, gentle, graying,

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and just past middle aged. The griever was recruited as

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part of the Phoenix Order. Sable was dark skinned, unlike

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the rest of the instructors, and looked down upon by

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staff and students alike. Because of the nature of his

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assigned domain. To be fair in the Colonies, books must

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be approved by dozens of government officials before publication, swept

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for swear words, mentions of sex, mentions of violence, and

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historical accuracy. What was left behind after the butchery was

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a husk. Not every book was a colony wash ghost

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of itself, though some were just written that way to

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adhere to and reinforce the standard set by the government.

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Every other book in the library another volume of Colony Conflict,

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the most popular series in the Colonies, styled in the

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form of a debate series, with resonans riding in with

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vaguely treeson his questions to be set straight by the author.

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I spent octobers surrounded by such tones as colony conflict,

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doing your part through reproduction and colony conflict, the widespread

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issue of colleidis in cannibalism. The roundabout explanations inside were

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dry and desperate for agreement. The social contract of the

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Colonies required two signers. This dedication to portraying one view

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with no true, reasonable acknowledgment of opposition disturbed me in

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a way I hadn't been able to name until the

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librarian pointed it out after I asked him why all

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the books were boring because of their propaganda. It was

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my introduction to the word, though I wouldn't really grasp

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the meaning of it for Yushus till the initiation evasion.

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It's easier to gain access to restricted areas when you've

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got a name on hand as an excuse, I said,

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Sable sent me. I haven't seen him in yushes but

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it's the first thing I remembered when I introduced myself

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to Cad. This I had done over that purple hammer

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he kept on his hip, wrestling with him to convince

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the mechanic I needed the engine out of the ship

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he was working under. Cad had installed it after some convincing.

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Except then I'd used the different first name XGJ twenty

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one fifty one. I'd said, zena gene Sable. CAD's advice

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had endeared it to this wash drop the zeno keep

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the gene. It'd been in his idea too, to tinker

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with the spelling, borrowing that J from my birth order designation.

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In that way, Cad had helped me become me Entiapee Sable.

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Cadbury shot me a hard and concerned look, Captain, am

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I missing something right? It wasn't exactly planned, I said.

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I mean, we haven't made any arrangements, but I know

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some things. Terrence exchanged rings, right, and I've heard about

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Rice factoring in somehow slow down. USh urged rings, said

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Pool human custom, said cad robotically. Some cultures exchanged them

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like a way to flag that you're mated. He chewed

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on this a moment, turning to me, Jean's engaged. It

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means they're going to be married. Aunt squealed, Aunt sable

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entire apeece sable sable. She tasted the name the future

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moving kind of fast. USh muttered, Oh, here we go,

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I said, because this was what everything had been coming

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to all along. If humans were slaves to their impulses,

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Zeno's were tenfold, USh hatter pedestal above it all untouched

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by desire or impulsivity, and I had my mess below.

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It only seems that way because grievers don't marry, I

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pointed out, it's been over a yush, and we love

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each other, and you spent most of that yush in orbit.

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USh shot back, just like I knew she would, though

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her tone simmered into her real talk mode. That last

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name is a backup plan, Adams. Once you two signed

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the paperwork, everyone will know and no one is going

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to like it. You don't know that, cad cut in.

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Things have changed a lot, even just in our lifetimes, humans, xenos, klids, octals.

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I've seen so many inner kind families in open space

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and never in inner space. USh confirmed the colonies don't

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tolerate the things we do. Aries is the colonies incarnate.

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Aries won't have a choice but to accept us. I said,

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marriage makes a family. As far as Terrence believe, it's

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the first thing we'll do with the Drakens, the permit

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and the wedding, all on the same wash, the same aren.

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My thoughts were racing, and Tyapee strode to the pilot's

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seat to stroke my horns, tracing the curves of the

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hard black cartilage. I shivered, relaxed, she soothed. It'll work out,

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I just know it. Aunt fiddled with the sputtering staticky

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radio embedded in the dashboard, twisted the end dials until

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the disco and funk channel faded into chatter. The kepler

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and Councilman has gone back on every running promise for

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the last decade, a different voice modeled by poor reception

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on their cell line call cast better the griever you know,

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than the griever you don't. Back to the original caller

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if you can even call him a griever after all

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the shit he's pulled, The line disconnected abruptly, both calls

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dropping as the host cleared his throat. Looks like we

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lost the signal. Maybe the both of you will calm

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down a bit before we come back to you in

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twenty Remember your call must originate from an encrypted server.

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This is Fara or Farah coming at you live. Following

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Councilman Cadbury's appearance at People's Pipe and brief but controversial speech,

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caller number five, you're on the air. What are your

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aggrievances with the Councilman's language? Councilman Cadbury, USh, look to Nelson.

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It's a common name on kepler. Cad plucked a dirty

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rag from that leather tool belt to swipe across his

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sweaty forehead. Adams, you listen to this hot garbage and type,

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He shushed him, twisted the middle dial clockwise just a smidge.

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She glanced at the clock on the dash. Every day

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they call at the same time. If I could just

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hear their voice, the caller's line crackled, they launched in

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a monotonous reciting norma eight five sixty seven nine three

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Remember a scat eptical scat an Tiape hurriedly retrieved a

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notepad from the gray cranny. Coin scribbled the coordinates furiously.

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These are the only numbers they ever repeat. Now I

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understood this was her tipster, the stranger who had snitched

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on the Collidizans and exposed Aunt's friend's death, and in

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a roundabout way, the blunder lab. I've been reading lots

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of Olivia Crest you mentioned, I sighed, and according to

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her spymaster's manifesto, every good movement needs a neutral ENCRYPTI

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reporting firm the numbers, the coordinates, but maybe something in

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the afflection could tell me who's reciting them and why.

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As for the sign off, it's typical of red suits.

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Rat Latin, get it, stay skeptical. Great griever. Crest is

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a genius drool spilled from one corner of Ant's pretty mouth.

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On one hand, it was kind of exciting to see

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hersel worked up over someone, even if they weren't me

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but Crest was something of a sore spot. Not that

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I cared about her being TeX's top priority. I didn't

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want to be, but Olivia Crest was above even me

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when it came to targets of aries wrath. The ex

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constable had gone rogue three yeshs ago, abandoning her post

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and taking the inner space to repent for all the

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planet dominating by shrinking into the shadows for once. Crest

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didn't stay silent, though, blowing the whistle on a secretive

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mining operation on Ross ninety eight, Colony prisoner is forced

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to harvest streaker for slave wages. What would Cres know,

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I grumbled, She's just some guilt driven leaker exactly, Aunt said,

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slipping her notepad into the cranny. She's got nothing to

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lose in everything to gain from spilling the colony's secrets.

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A total badass. How many riots did she subdue while

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she was a constable, I said, with that stun stick

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with her hot shot? How many is Adams USh cut

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in and Ntiapee blushed lay off? Ugamir kad clapped a

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hand on my shoulder. I'm happy for Eugene, really, that's

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why we just want you to be safe. I stood

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so he could wrap his arms around me. I love you,

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Kadkad's hugs had a grounding effect, unmatched even by actually

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landing CAD's steady steel grip. I looked over his shoulder

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at USh and Pool motion for them to join us,

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all of you. They squished in, all of us, holding

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each other in a circle, closing aunt out. I opened it,

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extending a hand to the constable, and I love the

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aunt too. Pool grimaced as in tiape. He took my

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hand and squeezed into our circle. I'm gathering that, said

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the translations officer, nostrils flaring as they sighed. If you

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trust your gene, then so do I. They stepped back

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from the hug. But we need to lay down some

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ground rules. My thoughts exactly. USh nodded some boundaries, like,

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for instance, no sex in the common areas that goes

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for any kind digital oral cyber aren't cyber and digital

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the same thing, said Cad. Questions like that, first mate said, USh,

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are why we haven't needed these rules until now. I

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fought back laughter as I came to Kad's defense. Give

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Nelson a break, USh, we haven't needed those rules because

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we're all considerate shipmates. Of course, I enjoy the special

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affection me and Aunt chaer, but that doesn't mean I'm

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gonna throw my crewis knees out the air lock. There

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is no Coylaks without each of us. There's no Coylaches

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without Cad. Pull pointed out. There's nothing Nelson can't replace.

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That's just it, I replied. Each of u is a

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part no one could replace. I looked a USh, and

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I wouldn't even if I could. I'm in love with entipee,

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and I'm in love with this crew. Doctor Ugomehr blushed.

461
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,319
I concur she said, Now, if it gets any warmer

462
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,400
or fuzzier in here, we'll have a critical mold infestation.

463
00:32:29,119 --> 00:32:32,200
Let's move on to logistics, Captain. What does Adwas bring

464
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,240
to the table other than her glowing personality and a

465
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,279
ten ton name. Aunt gaped, straightening in her seat and

466
00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:42,039
letting a shade of that constable formality creep into her

467
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:45,720
tone when she said, pardon me, comp here, I graduate

468
00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:48,119
at top of my class from the finest institution in

469
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:52,400
the entire galaxy. Yeah, sure, whatever, Pull snorted from their seat.

470
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,480
I just mean that you should do your best to

471
00:32:54,519 --> 00:32:57,000
stay out of the way. I understand we're all getting

472
00:32:57,039 --> 00:32:59,039
to know each other here, but when it comes down

473
00:32:59,039 --> 00:33:01,640
to it, you're just some colony college grad whose father

474
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,759
gave her the first and only job she's ever had,

475
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,960
an immature brewer, a no vice faarer. Hey, I can

476
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:12,400
get along just fine. Aunt protested. Maybe you can, said Poole,

477
00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:15,799
But you wouldn't know. Daddy's always stationed you out of

478
00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:18,880
the way, promoted you out of dangerous way. That shield

479
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,200
is gone now, Yukakkad nodded, grunting, they're right. You're in

480
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:27,839
open space, our territory. Just stick with us when things

481
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,799
get hairy, and don't try to negotiate over us. We

482
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,880
know how to haggle. We know what we're doing. Aunt

483
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,440
clicked on the visitjector. Got it, she said, stick to

484
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,559
what I'm good at. Held a map over the blue scanner.

485
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,160
The blinking blue light on the dashboard washed over the image,

486
00:33:44,319 --> 00:33:47,279
spinning it back out in holographic form, a map of

487
00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:50,000
the Milky Way. I'll try to course if you set

488
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,519
a location. What do you think first, mate, Cadbury, I

489
00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:58,559
nodded at the expanse of space before us. Cadbury inspected

490
00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:02,319
the holographic map leaping out of the visitjector blinking red

491
00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:05,039
dots springing up to signal where in the galaxy our

492
00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:08,199
most recent messages had come from. He clicked on a

493
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,599
red dot hovering near Jupiter. The name that expanded out

494
00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:16,599
of it Finton Hendricks. Hendrix was no maroon, no Griever.

495
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,119
Even his message lacked the structure and urgency of the

496
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:23,320
previous two, of any that we chanced to listen till

497
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:27,199
then his pale face sweeping in and out of you

498
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,159
as he fumbled with his cell phone, slurring into the mic,

499
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:36,320
Kyle Riggs cream, I'm there a party in the usual

500
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,519
place and we can user refreshing, got any of the

501
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:46,800
garlic batch left? Oh? And what about that? In his excitement,

502
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,639
Finton dropped his phone and the video blinked back into

503
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:55,360
the dash CALLISTO said Cadbury. If Boners knows everyone, then

504
00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:00,280
Hendrix knows everyone else. A little risky, I considered. But

505
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,320
it's a residential area. Terrens don't run patrols on themselves,

506
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,280
after all. I'd say, let's get rid of the blunder

507
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,599
and get on with our lives. But Cadbury adjusted the

508
00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:17,440
efficiency controls of the antiox tank, but I prompted, it's

509
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,840
only fifteen planetons. He said, we'll make it, but our

510
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,079
ion belt could use a replacement if we want to

511
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:28,360
make the most of the undergau crystals. Your escape was

512
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:32,599
very fashionable, Captain, but all that weaving really strength, the machinery,

513
00:35:34,119 --> 00:35:38,760
excellent attention to detail. First, Mate, I noted, Fence got

514
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,480
colony cash right, pull nodded, hush money more like half

515
00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:48,400
in drokens half in dollars. They scowled. He's sort of flaky, though,

516
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,039
and Adelite detected us rotating the cosmocraft three times to

517
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:56,760
declare that we were leaving the Condor quadrant. Aunt chimed in,

518
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,840
if he's a colony agent, he might be able to

519
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,400
help help me get it. My porta deposit box. I

520
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,559
left the key back in my ship, but I do

521
00:36:04,639 --> 00:36:08,079
have my envoy ID. Still, won't it be under your

522
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:11,480
father's name, though I asked, and tie it be huffed.

523
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,639
I'm an adult gene, despite what everyone in the galaxy thinks.

524
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,599
I don't let my dad pay for me to coast

525
00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:21,639
through life. That's blood money. My constable wages went straight

526
00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:24,000
into my mouth most of the time, but I managed

527
00:36:24,039 --> 00:36:28,880
to save some for well, when I met you, I

528
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,280
figured I might need cushion for when I left my post,

529
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,440
no more than ten thousand, but an ion belt should

530
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:40,119
only be a couple thousand dollars only. I said, we

531
00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:43,960
need drokens, though Kad said, trust me, the only belt's

532
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,800
worth shelling out five hundred for our droken bought octalidas

533
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:54,400
in weaving practically indestructible, unlike this colony sown thing. Well,

534
00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:59,079
Aunt hesitated. I don't have clearance for that. Taking out

535
00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:01,400
money is one thing, but the idea will be flagged

536
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,760
if I try to convert. According to Livecrest, anyway, anyone

537
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,679
would convert for a doctor, USh flashed their League of

538
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,039
Galactic Healer's id the metal card and printed with her

539
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:15,639
face the signature of the Lord of Galactic Healers and

540
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,719
an iridescent symbol. Two snakes quailed around a staff, the

541
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:24,719
words do no harm inscribed under their tails. Quick thinking crew,

542
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,880
I said, I know this is kind of a meteor

543
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,119
in the trajectory, but we'll get through it like we

544
00:37:30,199 --> 00:37:34,280
always do. At the shift from idle to thrust, the

545
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,960
Kylaks rocketed forward, lurching at first like an injured locust rat,

546
00:37:39,039 --> 00:37:42,239
before bounding across the black Field together