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This time Scout knew she was feeling the ground moving underneath her. She wasn’t in a rover, moving or otherwise. There was no other explanation. The dishes inside the cupboards were rattling and something in the warehouse fell to the ground with a thump. Bente stood with both hands planted on the tabletop like that was lending her desperately needed stability. Joelle caught the cart before it could start rolling away from her.
Then the shaking stopped as inexplicably as it had begun. Joelle stayed as she was for another moment to be sure everything was going to stay still, then went back to loading up the cart as if nothing had happened.
Scout looked over at Bente. Bente looked a bit green, like the earth shaking had just made her seasick, but when she saw Scout watching her she sw
