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Connie turned her chair at his words. "We need you to record a friendship message in case that ship's Torvon. Mr. Leonard, see to the recording."

"So I hold the answer in my hand, but I can't read it?"
"That about sums it up," the tech confirmed.
She set the box on one of the benches next to the box holding the other rods and walked out of the repair shop.

Excert: Something banged noisily outside the shuttle, bringing Cowloom back to wakefulness. "I came out here to get away from their damnable snoring," he complained to the nobody else in the shuttle. He shifted the top of the sleeping bag he'd stretched out over the last two mattresses left in the sleeping section of the cannibalized vessel and got to his feet

The bottom plate of the Yuri groaned as it strained to break free of the last ounces of steel holding it to the ship. Until it finally snapped and thudded together as the two cut bottom edges smacked into each other.

"So that's where they've gone," Dortello handed the binoculars over to his boss for him to have a look through the Yuri's highest porthole. "The creatures have set up camp around Harrod's people."

Cowloom grabbed the handle also, while Michael and Molaro started scrapping the dirt off the top of the thing. Slowly, as more of the weight was pulled off it, the stone plug lifted enough to form a gap between it and whatever was below.
After about an hour of work, they swung the plug just past vertical where it would hold its position. With the sun directly over head, they circled around the yard-wide opening...

"She’s leaving good footprints," Cemper called to the others. Justin lowered the jar and found impressions in the wet banks almost an inch deep. Of the three sets ahead of him, one of them had a little water filling the bottom already.

"How deep is the object into the gas layer?" Mary looked over her shoulder to see Laudrum staring at the sonar system. She locked the Yuri on autopilot and turned her chair slightly. "I don't see it on this thing."

"Do you gentlemen think what we found was an escape pod?" Chen asked. He stood up and looked around the area they were standing in. "And if so, where are all the others?" There were five empty holes on each side.