"Sorry, Zip. Sorry, everybody," he said, chagrined. "You're right.
There is. But I can fix that too." He reached in and twisted two wires
together. "Okay, that should bypass the door circuit and tell the
master computer that the door is still closed. I can open the door now.
Are you ready?"
Zip stood up. "There are fourteen of us. We don't know where to go once
we're free, so I'd like George to lead us. He's been through the
asteroid. Take us somewhere, George, where we won't be found easily."
George shook his head in a big arc. "Now Zip, I haven't been on this
chunk for over fifteen years. I'm not real sure where to go!"
"George, no one else has been on the asteroid at all. There's no one
but you."
The asteroid miner looked down, dejected. "I don't like any of this.
But you're right. Okay. We'll go out the door and back to the
elevators. We'll take the one on the left. I'll take us to a floor one
level down, then through a huge storeroom. On the other side are other
corridors. I've been through there, and there are places to hide and
more elevators to get us other places on the asteroid. After that I'm
not sure. Maybe I'll remember when we get there."
"Everyone got that?" said Zip. "Stay together and move quickly." No one
had anything else to say. Zip turned to Joe.
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