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Besieged
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
—Churchill
When Ping awoke again, Chance was just sitting down. Ping blinked her eyes clear and asked for the inevitable sitrep. “So, what’s been happening while I’ve been out?”
Chance gave her a quick rundown.
Dash’s ad hoc solution to the epidemic that raged through the Chiron seemed to be working. People were coming down with the new UVR Rubola at an alarming rate, and everyone was resigned to getting the disease eventually, including Chance. But she was oddly upbeat about it because deaths so far were few, and mostly confined to the elderly.
When the controls and comms systems for the ship had come back to life, Amanda ordered the massed peacekeepers preparing to breach to stand down. Just in time, as it
