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The Hunt Ends
April held the last corner of her sandwich on the palm of her hand and offered it to Boo, who took it with more relish than she had managed to muster for the first bite. Hakim raised an eyebrow but said nothing. It wasn’t a waste; Boo was hungry too. She only hoped that everyone considered him too much a part of their family now to discuss leaving him behind again now that the money had run out.
“Not a single lead, then?” Lars asked when the last crumb was found and licked off the wrapper, all of them still just a little bit hungry.
“I don’t think she was ever here,” Hakim said. “I’m sorry I dragged us all out here, halfway to nowhere chasing a bad trail.”
“It seemed plausible,” April said. “She might have been trying to get back to the Belt if she thought Ivan was st
