Sh'hari's
mouth dropped open at Tress's answer. The other girls laughed. Then Sh'hari
laughed and tipped off a salute with two fingers from the edge of her eyebrow.
She bent down and gestured for the four girls to come closer.
"Thanks
for your help. I've always wondered how she got around the ship so fast when
we're running intruder alert drills. She cheats."
"It's
not cheating," Kati said. "You're not cheating when you use something
you know, that other people forgot about."
"That certainly sounds like your big brother." The security woman winked and straightened up and gestured for the girls to go ahead of her. "I have to get you troublemakers back on the ship in twenty-two minutes. Any last-minute stops you want to make? Or do you want to just take a leisurely stroll down ramps and check out all the airlocks and get a feel for the layout of the station?"
The girls chose the leisurely stroll. Sh'hari was always a fun escort, because she always seemed to know people on every station or colony world or outpost where the Defender stopped, and on every ship they encountered. Her parents had been independent merchants and traveled to all sorts of planets and distant star systems, looking for interesting things to import to the Alliance.
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