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projecting the reluctance of the life force it retained.

"Do you think Jonathan would mind waiting a few minutes?"

"Minutes?" she retorted. "You'd better take your time with me, soldier.
And no, I don't think Jonathan would mind at all. He had a certain lust for
life himself." And her eyes brimmed, in spite of herself. To combat the lump
in her throat, she added, "I want you, too."

"There were times," Jack said softly, "on board ship when I thought I
could hear you breathing on the other side of the cabin wall."

Amber shook her head. "If we'd been that close, they couldn't have kept
me from you." She did not fight as he encircled his arms about her waist and
drew her up on the exam table next to him, but she did grasp his right hand,
his four-fingered hand, where the frostbite of cold sleep had taken away his
little finger, and said, "Someone should do something about sealing this lab.
We wouldn't want to break quarantine."

"I'll take care of that," and he voice-coded the lock with a phrase that
made her laugh. And then he proceeded to do something very unorthodox
to cool her fever.
 For long moments, all the worlds and all the stars concentrated into the
intimacy of two people entwined with one another.




Chapter 3
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I intercepted a message matrix from the Green Shirts," Vandover said, not
bothering to conceal the pleased look which he knew contorted his fleshy
lips.

Pepys, immersed in his control mesh, looked up with an irritated flash.
"You know I'm busy."

"But not too busy for this, I trust." Vandover handed over the transcript
which he had been tapping across the palm of one hand.

Pepys took it and scanned it. His red hair crackled with intensity as he
asked, "When and where did you get this?"

"They attempted to pass it to Storm when we brought him through the
port."

Pepys looked back down at the encoded and deciphered paper: Situation
with Walkers to be kept enflamed. Pepys needs to keep you alive. He let the
script slip through his fingers to the floor where it lay among a nest of cable
wire. "Tell me something I don't know."