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Arlene finally saw where I was headed. Memory lane dead-ended right here on Deimos. "Fly, you're BS-ing me." "No, I really built an auto . . ." "You are insane if you think you can build a freakin' spaceship out of spare parts!" I literally jumped up and down. "You thought of it too," I said. "Great idea, isn't it? We can build a rocket and get off this rock." She was very tolerant. "Fly, an automobile is one thing. You're talking about a spaceship." I looked her straight in the eye. "After all we've been through, you going to tell me we can't do this?" She looked me straight back. "Read my lips," she said. "We can not do this." "We have nothing to lose, A.S. It can't be any harder than taking down the spidermind, can it?" "You have a point there," she said grudgingly. "So how do you propose we start?" She was always annoyed when I used reality to win an argument. I knew it was possible. But not without a manual. "We need some tech," I said. "Tech?" ment." "Don't tell me ... I'm the design department." I smiled. "You're the design department." "And what are you, Fly Taggart?" "Everything else." We went looking for a manual. Ten minutes later we found one in the most logical place, which was the last place we looked, naturally: next to the coffee maker. I tried to get Arlene to make us a pot of coffee, but she stared at me as if I'd grown a third head. So I made it myself; I'd forgotten that Arlene didn't indulge, but that was all right with me. I figured since I was the production line, I needed all the caffeine I could survive. Next we inventoried everything we had to work with. Our best choice was to make a small mail rocket intended for one person, but capable of seating two, if they were really chummy. I wrote a list of parts needed and found almost everything within three hours . . . except for a thingamabob. I knew what it was really called, but I couldn't think of it. We spent another hour searching, and though we didn't come across it, we located more tools that would be of immeasurable value; a screwdriver, a drill bit, a |
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