It’s potentially less about getting Childermass out of anything and sitting in companiable misery, but who knows if he’ll even permit that, really? Lambert shakes his head.

“Not as far as I know. But talking might go over better if it’s not on this floating piece of crap.” He grimaces. Sadly, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, as much as he’d like to. Said ‘floating piece of crap’ has a lot to do with worsening his own mood, but ...

“Before that, it needs to be cleared out and sorted out. I’m taking whoever’s up to it to go through the rest of the station and see if there’s anything useful or if we need to take any more techs out.”