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- Holly sounded a quick burst on the klaxon for attention. “Excuse
- me, gentlemen. All this arguing is consuming oxygen, so could we all
- please be quiet?”
- “Is that a command, beloved?”
- “Yes,” whispered Holly ominously. “It is.”
- “Very well. Then quiet it shall be. I would rather cut out my own
- tongue than utter one more word. I would sooner behead myself with a
- butter knife than speak a single—”
- Holly gave in to a baser instinct and jabbed Orion in the solar
- plexus.
- That was wrong, she thought as the boy drooped in his harness,
- gasping for breath. I am going to feel guilty about that later.
- - The Atlantis Complex, Chapter 7
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