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Brushfire on Europa
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Priya grabbed her radio and called the green shack. "Theo. Are you seeing the blue light too?" A pause, then his voice came back, shaky. "Yeah. My whole screen's lit up. Stop drilling, Priya. I think we hit something alive."
Priya ignored him and kept her camera rolling. "If this is real, it's the biggest find ever. We report it together and split the credit." Theo went quiet. "Or," he said slowly, "one of us reports it alone and takes everything."
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Theo bolted for his shack to file the claim first. Priya didn't fight him. She yanked the antenna cable from both pods so neither could send a thing. "Nobody reports anything," she panted, "until we agree how to do this right."
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