waste, and a barely-alive young man called Dekker. They take Dekker onto their ship, clean him up, and attach the other ship to theirs and head back to base. Bird thinks the ethical course of action is to look after Dekker and not worry about his ship, but Ben, having scrimped and saved to get enough money to buy in on Bird's ship, obsesses about whether they'll have salvage rights to Dekker's ship. Dekker is fairly incoherent whenever he talks to them but keeps asking them the time, and where his partner Cory is. He knows she went out of the ship, and wants to rescue her, but can't tell Bird and Ben what happened or why the ship ended up outside of the zone it's registered for. He seems to have lost track of time since two months earlier. They establish that where the ship was prospecting, there is now a "driver": a larger Company ore extraction ship. Ben reacts aggressively to every word or action of Dekker's, and talks about killing Dekker so Ben and Bird can get the ship. Bird keeps trying to calm him down and intervenes between him and Dekker. They attach Dekker to a restraining cable but he tries to force the catch on it and Ben beats him up before Bird can stop him. Bird manages to keep the peace between them until they eventually get back to Refinery Two Base, where the police question Bird and Ben, inspect both ships, and take Dekker to the hospital. They retain all of both men's personal effects for the moment. Ben heads down to the lower decks of Refinery Two, where few freerunners venture, to see if he can get quicker info from the company executives about whether he and Bird have any salvage rights to Dekker's ship, while Bird stays on the upper levels and meets up with two female friends of his, Meg and Sal. Ben returns to say they have a chance of getting Dekker's ship, because it didn't belong to a company, but was owned by Dekker and his partner Cory. Dekker is in custody, being questioned by the authorities, who sedate him whenever he becomes distressed. They ask him what happened, and eventually he reveals that they were prospecting inside their registered zone and found a 1km-long ore-dense asteroid, even though most of the asteroids that rich have long since