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“If they are sapient, everything we take out of this world is a little less for them to use for themselves.
“They’re at the level where they’ve just discovered sandwiches,” Holloway said. “Working a sunstone seam is not high on their agenda.”
Haha
“The point is when they are ready, it won’t be there. That sunstone seam you found is the result of millions of years of heat and pressure. ZaraCorp is going to pull it all out of the ground in a decade, if it takes even that long.
the front rotors of his skimmer failed.
Sabotage - question
it meant the power source was uncharged.
Sabotage - no question
footage of zararaptors attacking and killing unwary humans, in video caught by surveillance cameras, security feeds, and in one case, by a tragically overconfident surveyor himself.
Haha ewww
wasn’t there. Holloway felt a chill.
Sabotage - no question
Haha
Holloway wanted a sound system.
psychoacoustic effects that propagated above and beyond human hearing range, effects that were lost in conventional sound systems whose speakers reproduced less than the human hearing range.
Huh, tool user, some part of Holloway’s brain said. I’ll have to tell Isabel about that.
Haha
But all three things together and at once smacked of intention to him.
Haha
Why not out the gauze in his ears?
Haha
Warren’s Warren
Joe DeLise
It was actually better than officially accusing DeLise of trying to kill him.
This way Holloway didn’t have to prove anything. This was as close as Holloway was going to come to having an insurance policy against future murder attempts.
Mark
Sullivan,”
Mark Sullivan - Isabel’s new boyfriend! So ironic. So cool.
the associate general counsel for an entire goddamned planet,
what do you think will happen when Mr. Holloway suddenly shows up dead in a ZaraCorp security holding cell?
Sullivan looked at Holloway, figuring out what he was doing and why.
Yes, the lawyer is smart.
did you really mean it that if anything happened to me that the Colonial Authority would look into it?” “If you died in ZaraCorp security custody?” Sullivan said. “That’s a given.
If you wrapped your skimmer around a tree, probably not.
Thantose.”
an Alestria executive farmed out the production of the drug to a Tajik vendor,
Haha. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
OMG
Jonas Stern.
Haha, yay! The reason I didn’t like my white collar clients (though I did my best for them, I couldn’t forego making my feelings known for some of them).
“It was dumb,” Holloway agreed. “But it felt really good.”
“Just like punching DeLise was dumb, too,” Sullivan said. “That also felt great at the time,”
Haha
Haha
Oh yes it does.
sometimes it feels good to do the wrong thing.”
“She likes me as much as she thinks I deserve,” Holloway said. “She likes my dog more.”
Haha
“Well, I think that’s the thing,” Holloway said. “I think it’s clear that sometimes I just don’t think.” “I think you do,” Sullivan said. “It’s just you think about you first.
Haha
Haha
Haha
“That’s what I get for assuming you checked these things, Jack,” Isabel said. “But I should have known better.” “Thanks,” Holloway said.
Haha
animals on this planet never developed male–female differentiation. There has always been only one sex.
I knew that, which is why I say I should have known better, Jack.”
A clever reversal of “I should have known better.”
Haha
Haha
Haha
there was something about Isabel that just made him want to argue. It was not a great way to have a relationship.
Haha - I know a couple like that.
