[ He turned his head to look at her, a soft, relieved smile on his lips, though there was still a hint of sadness to it. ]
Yeah. We came out of it okay, somehow.
Once Naomi got me and Amos patched up - we headed for the Behemoth together. They'd spun up the drum, and were offerin' medical assistance to everyone in the Ring, so the Martians and the UN were sendin' people too.
A lotta stuff happened after that... Holden had a vision, while he was on that thing, about what it could do. Saw it wipe out whole solar systems, in an effort to stop somethin' from spreadin'. Only you know how humans are, Gunny. They saw what the sphere did to all the ships, how it killed so many people - and figured they needed to destroy the ring, before it could take out the solar system, too. They'd done a test with a nuclear bomb on a skiff, to see how the sphere would react - and of course that just woke the damn thing up, and made us all look like enemies.
Things god pretty bad, pretty fast, after that, and I'll be honest, it's all kinda a blur.
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Yeah. We came out of it okay, somehow.
Once Naomi got me and Amos patched up - we headed for the Behemoth together. They'd spun up the drum, and were offerin' medical assistance to everyone in the Ring, so the Martians and the UN were sendin' people too.
A lotta stuff happened after that... Holden had a vision, while he was on that thing, about what it could do. Saw it wipe out whole solar systems, in an effort to stop somethin' from spreadin'. Only you know how humans are, Gunny. They saw what the sphere did to all the ships, how it killed so many people - and figured they needed to destroy the ring, before it could take out the solar system, too. They'd done a test with a nuclear bomb on a skiff, to see how the sphere would react - and of course that just woke the damn thing up, and made us all look like enemies.
Things god pretty bad, pretty fast, after that, and I'll be honest, it's all kinda a blur.