[B]VOICE 2: Fine. Don't say I didn't warn you.

[B]VOICE 3: Come on. Liamm, isn't it? This way.

[B]VOICE 1: I've never seen this ship design before.

[B]VOICE 2: What a klickin' surprise.

[B]VOICE 3: (sigh) Hunter's bones, Wrett. Could you be any more of an ass? This is our bridge.

[B]VOICE 1: Interesting design. Looks about as Starwolf as a sandraker temple.

[B]VOICE 2: Told you he wouldn't believe.

[B]VOICE 3: We haven't told him yet, damn it.

[B]VOICE 1: Told me what?

[B]VOICE 3: We told you we were distant kinfolk, yes?

[B]VOICE 1: And you've gotten a lot wrong for me to believe you, remember?

[B]VOICE 3: This is our home system. One of them, anyway.

[B]VOICE 1: Huh. Never heard of it. B-class binary like that? Doesn't seem like there's much in the way of a life zone, even if you found terrestrial planets there.

[B]VOICE 2: There is no life zone there.

[B]VOICE 3: Here's the population numbers.

[B]VOICE 1: (laugh) You have to be kidding!

[B]VOICE 2: What?

[B]VOICE 1: There isn't a planet in the wilderzone with that kind of population. Where the Dark is this place?

[B]VOICE 3: Here.

[B]VOICE 1: ...

[B]VOICE 2: Damn. If that doesn't look like one of Alice's monkey frogs, I'll eat my armor.

[B]VOICE 1: (whispers) That's impossible.

[B]VOICE 3: Very possible. With the right mapping.

[B]VOICE 1: You--you're telling the truth about this?

[B]VOICE 3: You bet.

[B]VOICE 2: You want me to get you a drink...cousin?

[B]VOICE 1: Yeah. A stiff one.

[B]VOICE 3: You OK?

[B]VOICE 1: You mind if I sit down?

[B]VOICE 3: Be my guest. Over here, if you don't mind.

[B]VOICE 2: Here's your drink. Now will you tell us about Ymir?

[B]VOICE 1: Don't you know what happened?

[B]VOICE 3: Just the general details.

[B]VOICE 1: Ah, damn. It wasn't supposed to happen...the way it did.

[B]VOICE 2: Come on, man, pull it together! I thought you nearsiders had stones.

[B]VOICE 3: Ease off, Wrett. He's been through a lot, for Hunter's sake!

[B]VOICE 2: Shh...!

[B]VOICE 1: ...been mustering for two months. Strikepacks with warriors from over forty systems streamed to Ymir. I'd never seen so many Wolves at once. No one had. Dark, there was even a girl who came from Narhaven out on the Fringe. Can you believe that?

[B]VOICE 2: Narhaven? Where the hell is that?

[B]VOICE 3: Near Scipio. Now quiet.

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