place cut off the spindle and towed to another orbit, but they had the cores wiped before they did that, and torched ’em off and sold ’em to a scrapper. The scrapper’s never done anything with ’em. I never heard anybody was squatting there, but out here you live where you can . . . I guess that’s true for anybody. Like they say that Lady Jane, old Ashpool’s daughter, she’s still living in their old place, stone crazy . . .” She gave the g-web a last professional tug. “Okay. You just relax. I’m gonna burn Jane hard for twenty minutes, but it’ll get us there fast, which I figure is what you’re
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