I spun on her, ready to rip into her with something like, If you’d told me how important it was, I’d have done something about it—! But the harsh words died on my lips. She had told me how important it was, twice. And I read it, and also read her disclaimer, the combi-drive is currently operating to spec but—and I’d taken that to mean we could just press on using it for now, since combi-drive expertise was a rare commodity. In fact, outside of Reverie, we probably had the most expertise aboard the Fafnir. But even it was limited. The combi-drive was a particularly specialized piece of kit, so
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