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The girl pulled her hand from Scout’s shoulder and refocused her attention on her tablet a moment before Scout heard the sounds of others approaching the bottom of the ramp. She made sure of her grip on the dogs’ leashes before turning to see who was coming. She wasn’t sure if she was hoping for more figures in black or for more gray jumpsuits like the girl was wearing.
The three people approaching wore neither. The blonde woman in front wore a navy-blue pair of slacks and a lighter blue tunic with navy-blue epaulets. A row of insignia was displayed over her right breast, and although none of them meant anything to Scout, the look as a whole said uniform. The young man on her left wore a jumpsuit of a deep forest green with a patch on his shoulder: the Space Farer rocket. The young wom
