Having retreated to what they thought would be the safety of the Mott monitoring station, Tolt and Jannu were installing the firing mechanism for the net. Unable to forget his concern for Mott property, even under those ringlet-raising conditions, the Mott commander looked worried.
‘The damage to that console will be deducted from the payment you get,’ he whined, as he saw them levering pieces of it away to reach the circuits beneath; it didn’t improve his mood that Jannu had managed to talk his own service robots into helping them.