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Now we get to the part of the story where someone must’ve called ahead. I was still two hours from Mars, so their grappling me so far out told me they wanted to make sure I didn’t slip planetside unnoticed.
I shut off the alarm and switched the alert lighting to normal. All that sensory stimulation was getting on my nerves. Upside—it’d cut through the ganglia growing in my head, at least for the moment. Adrenalin rush. Fearing for my life all of a sudden had me almost feeling like my old self.
I deshaded the windows. No sense hiding now. I wanted to see what I could see.
Which was a whole lot of nothing on the lidar screen. Nothing to bounce the laser off of, at least not in range. That told me something other than a bounty’s bug had hold of me. Something big.
It showed up on the s
