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Big, slow, careful kid out of the fabrication shop — shovel hands with a surprising touch for fine work. After the deck-four fire (in which he lost a mate in number-four berthing) he attached himself to the engine deck and volunteered for every filthy job, grief gone into work. Ferris gave him the deck-six coolant manifold because he was careful ("you give them the careful work because they're careful"). The secondary pump's cracked bearing race let go; the coolant flash took his lungs; he died on the ladder, talking, then not.
Big, slow, careful kid out of the fabrication shop — shovel hands with a surprising touch for fine work. After the chapter 7 deck-four fire (in which he lost a mate in number-four berthing) he attached himself to the engine deck and volunteered for every filthy job, grief gone into work. Ferris gave him the deck-six coolant manifold because he was careful ("you give them the careful work because they're careful"). The secondary pump's cracked bearing race let go; the coolant flash took his lungs; he died on the ladder, talking, then not.