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CLOUD'S SWEARING wasted no time; he could swear and act simultaneously. He flashed his vessel up near the lifeboat, went inert, and began to match its intrinsic velocity.
He'd have to board, no other way. Even if he had anything to blast it with, and he didn't-his vessel wasn't armed-he couldn't, without killing innocent people. What did he have?