A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)
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quick chutes,
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its gooey magic enfolded her in a gelatinous cocoon.
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a mage who could sense her specific life force.
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her impulse to spare them surely made her a good person.
Penn Hackney
Haha silly
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a marksman mage
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Garda,
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the Widow’s Watch
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Clarkesfall,
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Kanda...
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Silas,
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he’d helped her out more than a few times.
Penn Hackney
In exchange for what? And why would her ‘favorite bartender’ help her against an armed assailant? Question
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you’re one of us: destined for the garbage heap.”
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Kin lost and Cordell on her tail.
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beat feet.
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Haha
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“You got a bad sort looking for you. This old crone came through the refugee district knocking heads, looking for Arcans.
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she looked like a walking war crime.
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Boots suppressed a visible gulp. She knew that look: hungry and brutal.
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the Harrow.”
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Taitutian
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Race cars streaked across it,
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Cyril Clowe—
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son of a Fallen.”
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Nilah
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Gantry Station
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Mother’s
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Elizabeth Elsworth.
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racing.
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banking?
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some sort of space travel investment.
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A set of ocean wave tattoos covered her forearms,
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In the ancient past, it’d been considered imprudent to have a fire on a space station.
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“You’ve got the hotelier’s sigil.”
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Her father was one of the most well-connected financiers on the richest planet in the galaxy.
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Penn Hackney
Haha
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Simile
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Nilah’s father had always insisted that a rich person needed to know self-defense.
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The chip would remain active for a few days, then dissolve into her body.
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Any network-connected device would do:
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the dispersers back at the racetrack hadn’t come to her and Cyril’s rescue.
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What did that mean?
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It had been years since she’d been far from her bodyguards, creature comforts, and money.
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Mikaela Dawsey,
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Her portrait was captioned: CRIMINAL?
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hammered shot after shot through the screaming crowd. Each sun-bright needle from her slinger went straight through frightened civilians, even as the man dove out of the way.
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several uninvolved bystanders bleeding to death on the ground—
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Shot by whom? Question
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and signed out the fatalist’s mark.
Penn Hackney
Stupid question
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His magic curved his shot through the air, slicing across Dawsey’s head and taking off the top of her skull.
Penn Hackney
Ridiculous
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If the Fixers couldn’t be trusted, local cops were out of the question.