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Left alone, Dac Kien stared at the ship again. Right?” And I saw how Bill Dzik, Miriam, and Michael Poole exchanged unhappy glances. There’s an entire unserved market out there. It’s the single thing we know about Charlie.

Michael Poole stroked its surface with a gloved hand. The kid thinks he has a kick, but he doesn’t. I was sitting alone and in the dark by the communications console, the phosphorescent after-image of Kostas’s face fading into the surface. He doesn’t carry a phone.