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"We're going to break contract " he said aloud and that shook the other two, knocked some of their assurance out of them. "How about that?" Rip asked Ali. The acting-engineer nodded. "We have fuel enough to lift from here and maybe set down at Terraport if we take it careful and cut vectors.
And Captain Jellico, his eyes sunk in dark pits, checked and rechecked. When the fatal moment came Ali manned the engine room with Weeks at his elbow to tend the controls the acting-Engineer could not reach. And Dane, having seen the sick all safely stowed in crash webbing, came up to the control cabin, riding out the transfer in Tang Ya's place.
There was an interval for him to view the outer world and accept the verdict of the counter and then Rip voiced Dane's question: "Can we shield one of the flitters well enough to cross that? I can't take the Queen up and earth her again " "I know you can't!" the acting-engineer cut in. "Maybe you could get her off world, but you'll come close to blasting out when you try for another landing.
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