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He was right. The timing had been as bad as possible. The blob of light on the screen was obviously being buffeted about. Something seemed to hit the top and jerk it.
The screen went blank, then lighted again. Collins had shifted his connections, to patch into the signal Control was watching. The blip of the _Jennilee_ was now dead center, trying to tilt into a normal synergy curve. "Take it up, damn it! " Murdock swore hotly. This was no time to swing around the Earth until after the ship was above the storm. The tape for the automatic pilot should have been cut for a high first ascension. If Hennings was panicking and overriding it back to the familiar orbit....