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A MAN CONTINUALLY COUGHED NEAR THEM, ANNOYING FALO. She stared at him, swallowing thickly. It seemed like the chronic lung disease was happening to every person who was put down in cryosleep except for Shaw. It might've been from mining on the planet they were on a long time ago. The man hunched over, wheezing.
"I still can't believe you helped cure them." Echo snapped at Raven.
Falo sent a glare at Raven. She still couldn't believe Raven would do that. This morning when Emori and Murphy arrived, Raven, Falo and Echo caught them up to speed on everything that happened lately.
"Hey, take it easy," Murphy calmly told Echo as he and Emori sat by each other. When they arrived last night, Emori took John aside and spoke to him about their relationship, they were good now, but they weren't together. "Does that guy look cured to you?" he pointed at the guy. "Maybe it didn't work."
"It worked," Emori spoke up. "She built it."
"Exactly," Echo agreed. "A war is coming, and yet she passes up every opportunity we get to weaken the enemy."
Raven raised her voice, finally snapping at Echo. "What is your problem?"
"Quiet." Falo demanded, glancing back at Shaw who looked at them.
"We're still a team, right?" Murphy asked. Nobody answered. "Right?" The three, discluding Falo, females slowly nodded. "Good. Then we're agreed. We kill the pilot. Then we pop off these collars and run like hell."
Raven shook her head, scoffing. "No."
"What is it?" Falo asked.
"If we can slip the collars, we don't have to kill him," Raven said. "Besides, he's more valuable alive. As a spy you should know that, Echo." Raven gritted her teeth.
Jealousy washed over Falo, she knew she couldn't be mad because she was in a relationship with someone that wasn't Raven. Raven had clearly developed a soft spot for Shaw and that really made her mad.
Echo clenched her jaw. "What I know is that a dead man can't fly a ship or fire missiles at the people we love."
"I agr-" Falo began.
Emori interrupted her. "Valuable how?"
"Intel," Raven responded. "We need a distraction to escape, right? According to Shaw, this place is a civil war waiting to happen," she explained. "McCreary's people hate following Diyoza. They only did it in space to survive, but up until then, McCreary was the alpha dog."
"Shaw told you all of this?" Falo gritted her teeth, staring at the man through rage and jealousy.
"You want to weaken the enemy, what's weaker than an enemy at war with itself?" Raven glanced in between everyone.
