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Simon's gone over it in his head a dozen times, written it out and studied it as intently as though expecting to find a code hidden in it.

I'm going to I think I should stay down here till she wakes up.

He's almost sure that's what he wrote, at the time. And he's quite sure that's when Kaylee's mood changed. You didn't have to cross it out, she'd said, or similar; and he'd said, I know.

And that upset her, and he doesn't know why.



Which is the main reason he's hesitating outside the door to the engine room.