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“That’s why they are called bio suits.”
    “No,” Minna says. “This one is really alive. Before it bonded to me, it moved around on its own...it could eat on its own and it reacted when I spoke to it. Even now, while it’s bonded to me, I can feel its consciousness. When Ramu attacked me, Jerky was the one protecting me. I didn’t know how I was doing what I was doing, but Jerky did.”
    “ Jerky? ” Delphie asks. “You named it?”
    “Kronos,” Minna says. “It really is alive. Before you attacked...I was already having second thoughts about handing it over to the peacekeepers. They just want to use Jerky as a weapon. Or worse, they will experiment on him – dissect him – to see how he works. You really think that they can give up the opportunity to arm all of the human peacekeepers with biosuits?”
    “Who cares?” Delphie says. “Sorry, Minna, I understand you are attached – literally – but the peacekeepers are more or less the good guys.”
    “And we’re the bad guys,” Kronos says.
    “But it’s not like you’d be handing it over to Darkstar or something,” Delphie says. “They’ll use it to keep Harmony in check, to stop existential threats to humanity and the peaceful co-existence of humans and Marauders and Seraphim.”
    “Keep me on as crew,” Minna says. “Me and Jerky. We’ll fight for you if it comes to it, but you keep me protected as you promised you would. And you pay me, the same split you pay Delphie.”
    “So far that is a big fat zero,” Delphie says.
    “You’ll get paid,” Kronos says. “Both of you. Did you call Ramu, Delphie?”
    “I sent him a brief and professional message letting him know we are leaving with or without him,” Delphie says, anger seeping into her voice.
    “Can a Marauder wear that suit?” I ask.
    “No,” Minna says. “It was specifically designed for human biology. It can’t bind to Marauders or Seraphim.”
    I nod. “Ramu wants the suit for himself. I don’t know if he’ll even want to stay on as crew if I tell him that.”
    Delphie balls up her fists.
    “Give him a chance,” Minna says. “Maybe there are other things he’ll stay for.”
    “Stop treating me like a baby,” Delphie snaps. “Let’s go!”
    She storms off in front of us.
    I laugh. “Maybe she should stop acting like a baby then.”

10 Minna
    A s we approach the elevators , something seems different. Gone is the huge vulture pack of cars. In fact, there’s almost no traffic at all. There’s a small flow of people moving into them, but no one is coming down.
    “Shit,” Kronos says. “The peacekeepers must be in the hangar bay.”
    “Makes sense,” Delphie says. “They can just camp out there and watch for us. It’s not like there’s any other way off the hab.”
    “We can’t just go up there and walk right past them,” I say.
    “Yeah,” Kronos says. “We have to. Delphie just said it: there’s no other way off the hab.”
    “We hide and lay low?” I suggest.
    “And eventually more peacekeepers arrive, and they start searching the hab itself. Maybe they have limited information – for now. Maybe they just found out that your ship isn’t on its intended course and that’s the only thing they know? If we wait, they find the asshole cowards who failed to protect you, question them, and then they know what our ship looks like. We have to take the risk and go through now.”
    “Hey! Hey!” someone shouts behind us.
    I turn around and see Ramu.
    Delphie smiles for a brief moment, but then shakes her head and looks away, pretending to ignore him.
    “You guys were gonna’ leave without me?” he asks.
    “You heard, didn’t you?” Kronos asks. “Peacekeepers know what we’ve got.”
    “Half of my scars are from asshole peacekeepers,” Ramu says. “Let me at them.”
    “We want to avoid fighting,” Delphie snaps. “Or are you just all jacked up from your stupid fucking orgy?”
    Ramu scoffs. “I didn’t feel like fucking. I just