“Hakim,” she said suddenly. “You said Salima took her ship out, so she’s OK, but where is he?”
“I’ll find out,” he said. The scowl she could imagine on Hakim’s face if she asked him to do something Lars-related was completely absent from Lars’s. Still, he was here when he was supposed to be organizing work crews. “I’ll radio you when I know. I’m sure he’s fine, he had no reason to be in that part of the station.”
He had no official reason, but April couldn’t say that out loud. “I know. I just want to know for sure.”
“Try not to let it distract you,” he said. “You need to be focused out there.”
“I’ll be careful,” April promised. She put a hand against the viewport and he reluctantly put his hand against the other side of the glass.
“See that you are.”
He gave her one last look, as if
