waving the electric prod over her head ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE with a sour ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE grin; she glanced at him
in irritation, but said nothing
and ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE plowed on grimly, &ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE quot;Surrender now, and
the damage can at least be minimized. Please. For everyone's ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE sake. You have
the power to stop this."
Leo ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE was silent ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE for a moment, then leaned forward. "Dr. Yei, I'm forty-
five thousand kilometers up. You're there in the same room. you stop him."
He flicked the holovid off, and floated in numb silence.
&ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE quot; Is ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE that wise?" choked Ti uncertainly.
Leo shook his head. "Don't know. But without an audience, there's no
ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE reason to carry on a show, surely."
"Was that acting? How far will that ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE guy really ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE go?"
"In the past I've known ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE him to have a pretty
uncontrolled temper, when he
got wound up. An appeal to his self-interest usually unwound ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE him. But as
you've realized yourself, the, um career rewards in this mess ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE are minimal.
I don't know how ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE far he'll go. I don't think even he knows."
ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE After a long pause Ti said, "Do ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE you, ah-still need a shuttle pilot, Leo?"
Chapter 14
Silver clutched the arms of the shuttle co-pilot's seat
tightly in mixed
exhilaration and fear. Her lower hands
curled over the seat's front edge,
seeking purchase. Deceleration and gravity yanked at her. She spared a hand
to double-check the latch of the shoulder-harness snugging her in as the
ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE shuttle altered its attitude to nose-down and the ground heaved into view.
Red desert mountains, rocky and forbidding, wrinkled and buckled below
them, passing faster and faster as they dropped closer.
Ti sat beside her in the commander's chair, his hands and feet barely
moving the controls in tiny, constant ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE corrections, eyes flicking from
readout to readout and then to the real horizon, totally absorbed. The
atmosphere roared over ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE the shuttle's ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE skin and the craft rocked violently in
some passing wind shear. Silver began to see why Leo, despite his expressed
anguish at the risk ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE to them all of losing Ti downside, had not substituted
Zara or one of the other pusher ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE pilots in Ti's stead. Even barring the foot
pedals, landing on a planet was definitely a discipline apart from jetting
about in free ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE fall, especially in a vehicle nearly the size of a Habitat
module.
"There's the dry lake bed," Ti nodded forward, addressing her without
taking his ARABE GAY GRATUIT GALLERIE eyes from his work. "Right on the horizon."
"Will it be-very