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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1968416" data-attributes="member: 515">Vasilii and Martha watch the two Sare fan club trios head out with some trepidation. But they do have to get the ship prepped for the pickup of the speculative cargoes (and Aidan’s parts, and the Marine rations, missiles, and life support supplies) and the move to the Stork & Sons’ yard. -----Martha goes to port engineering to finish preparing engineering for the Stork & Sons yardworkers — putting things away, locking her favorite tools, tidying things, etc. She takes the time to pull out her snub pistol and load it with tranq ammo. There's about to be a lot of new people in her ship, and she remembers the last time that happened. Who knows how many intruders will attempt to work their way into engineering? Martha continues to prep the ship for the engineers, and insures that all security protocols are set and being followed. -----Vasilii puts the cubes in the port engine room next to the power plant, along with Kevon’s suppression device. He says to Martha, "We can move them to the upper deck after everyone’s back and we’re ready to leave the berth, but for now, I’d like to make them as difficult to detect as possible." He then takes bridge watch in preparation for the cargo handlers to arrive in 15 minutes. He is concerned since 0730 is the only time available prior to the ship’s move; he considers canceling the cargo transfer as it would leave Martha alone on the ship and him alone to watch the cargo handlers. He is wearing his vacc suit; his snub pistol is in a holster loaded with HE rounds, and his magnum revolver rests on the console in front of him. Because of his misgivings, especially after Swann’s call, the paranoid Vilani merchant hurriedly cancels the morning cargo transfer, incurring a Cr200 cancellation fee. The transfer can still be set up for a later time (after the ship move). Then he makes sure the anti-hijack security program is running, and all external ship doors and hatches are locked. He also locks the door to the berth. Once the doors are locked and he’s back inside the ship, Vasilii starts depressurizing the landing berth to a few notches just below the threshold where the inside door will open. -----Swann arrives at the Bray Keaven’s berth at a dead run to find that the berth looks pretty much as he left it. The only thing of note that the ex–Belter notices is the same scruffy-looking man who was in darkly-stained purple coveralls he and Ian saw observing the berth the first evening that the pair took a stroll. The man is still in darkly-stained coveralls (green this time) and he appears to be casually working on something behind a wall panel. When he sees Swann watching him, the man smiles briefly, gives Swann a wink, and then goes back to the panel. After some negotiation, Swann convinces Vasilii to repressurize the berth enough so he can open the berth airlock and board the Bray Keaven. -----While waiting for Vasilii to repressurize the docking berth, Swann gets a call from Ian. After hearing the arranged code phrase, he laughs and says, "Then someone is going to be left out of this dance." </blockquote>

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