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bed, shaking Ayumi's like a toy, but somehow
when they landed they were not on the bed but on the deck, and his face was
being shoved into it. And his arm was twisted behind him. And Carli was
sitting on him like he was a chair.
"Disappointed? Gee, asshole, I'd just fucking hate to disappoint you. But
if I'm not rough enough for you, I guess I'd better just go back down to the
planet and live in that gravity that I've had to fight all my life while you
were up here floating around like a fucking fairy. How's that"?
"OK, OK," he grinned, his voice straining somewhat to get the words out
through the half of his mouth that wasn't pinned to the deck. "I get your
point. But you know, an ally can quickly become an enemy . . ."
He uttered a short burst of command syllables and instantly the artificial
gravity in the room was lifted. They had no momentum in relation to the
floor and so they didn't actually move far, but the sensation momentarily
disoriented Carli and in that second Akira pushed off and they were floating
across the room. Akira twisted his body around
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