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Bronte huffed. “It will take a lot longer to make this trip if one of you has to carry me all the way.”
He gave her an indecipherable look. “It could take forever, Bronte, and it would not matter. Without you there would be no reason to journey.”

“The hold, Gideon! Not here!”
“I do not need to go into the hold,” Gideon growled. “I will strangle that son-of-a-bitch with my bare hands. There will be no sound at all save for his gurgling as I choke the life out of him.”

“I think I will rest in the hold.”
“There is no bed,” Jerico pointed on.
“I would rather sleep on the floor than wake to find Bronte trying to saw my balls off with a toothbrush!” Gideon snarled. “Unlike Gabriel, I am fond of mine!”

There was a scraping sound and then the sound of flesh smacking into flesh followed by a loud crash … as of someone falling down a ladder, because she heard dull clangs preceding the loud crash like a foot striking several rungs.
“That was … a dishonorable blow, Gideon!” Jerico ground out. “You might at least have allowed him to get down the ladder before you kicked him in the face!”

“Soldiers get rowdy when they have been too long from action,” Gideon offered.
Bronte stared at him. Apparently he recalled that they had seen ‘action’ only the day before when both Jerico and Gabriel had been shot escaping with her. “It was a long flight to Earth,” he added uncomfortably.