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"You've killed us both," Mikah said with his face strained and white but his voice under control.
"Not quite," Jason told him cheerily. "But I have killed the jump control so we can't get to another star. However there's nothing wrong with our space drive, so we can make a landing on one of the planets -- you saw for yourself that there is at least one suitable for habitation."