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Michiko hugged her parents. Once she was in her mother’s arms, she began to cry.
“I'm sorry,” she said. “I'm so sorry.”
“We’re the ones who are sorry,” Arthur Lins said reassuringly, rubbing her back.
“We believed Florian,” Reiko Yokokura-Lins said. “He lied to us. We thought he was sincere about helping you. I let my motherly instinct get the best of me—”
“It's okay,” Michiko said, wiping her eyes. “I was so scared when I saw that Florian ejected you from his ship.”
“Luckily we were in an escape pod,” Arthur said. “The Galactic Guard found us just in time.”
“We had a lot of time to think,” Reiko said. “And I'm sorry for giving you a hard time about nursing school. But you really made me angry.”
“It's okay,” Michiko said.
She turned to see Eddie still standing on the bridge.
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