Knox stood before Perez’s office door. With a deep breath in and out, he opened the door. Ximena and Alex leaned head-to-head over a projection of a mechanical… OK, now it looked like a mangled crustacean. Alex cut Knox a look. Are you suicidal?
Are you suicidal?Knox squatted and reached out to the leg of Ximena’s chair. With a tight grip, he gave it a shake. Ximena popped out of her chair, drawing a repair tool from her cargo pants pockets. Knox wasn’t sure what function that thing served on the ship, but he knew from past experience it gave a painful shock to humans.
To be fair, she had also whacked Knox with a polyflex gasket before, the equivalent of being flailed by a limp noodle. Ximena never paid much attention to what she grabbed when interrupted from an invention trance.
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