navigabo | perma-open tfln.

There's a good brothel on level 12. The bar's nice and they treat their people right. The market's good, too, but I dunno if they'll have the books you like, but the food's good. And there's glass performances.

I'm sure I can find something to read there, especially now that I've read everything we have aboard.

What are glass performances?

It's belter music. You've never heard anything like it. They move these little glass balls in low G and they spin... I dunno how to describe it.

Then we'll have to see the marketplace. It sounds like it would suit my interests more than the brothel.

Sure, I'll take you. Should consider the brothel, though. You could really stand to blow off some steam.

Do you think so?

You're kinda high strung.

What makes you say that?

[Pure curiosity, good-natured.]

I talk to you a lot.

I had no idea talking to me was so illuminating.

I mean, I'm not wrong.

Then I look forward to the supporting evidence for your thesis.

Sure used a lot of words to say "prove it".

I can do that too.

You remind me of a jury-rigged impulse transponder set on passive control. That shit works okay for eight thousand clicks, maybe nine, but you need to switch out the firmware if you don't want a system crash on life support, and if it's rigged with bad ventral junctions it's gonna need to be switched way more. Now, I'd say your firmware is more jitter-free than phase, but either way, you still gotta switch that shit out before it explodes.

As you clearly dwarf my knowledge of ship machinery, I'll have to trust that you've proven your point.

Visiting a brothel doesn't interest me, but I appreciate your concern.

True's true. Doesn't matter if you prove it. That's my point.

What do you do to relax, Teach?

I imagine we'll find out if you're correct when the explosion happens.

I read. Occasionally I play cards with you.

If you ever feel like screaming, come to me first.

That relaxes you?

It's unlikely I'll have reason to. But if it does become tempting...

Why wouldn't it?

Hey, everybody needs a punching bag. I can take it.

I dunno. Most people don't really see me as a comforting presence.

I'll keep that in mind.

Compared to some men I've known, you're astoundingly straightforward about what you want from the universe. That's refreshing.

That's not what most people find relaxing.

But, fuck, I guess. If it saves on hazard pay.

Most people were never acquainted with the MMC's head of recon.

So those rumors were true, huh. That's gotta be a mindfuck.

For the sake of our esteemed companions, they should continue to be rumors.

[ur a special boy amos grats]

But it is not an experience I would recommend.

Holden and Naomi know?

Nobody in space is here because they had a fun time in their past.

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