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The dead detective Miller — lost with Eros — reappears in the Roci's galley as a protomolecule apparition, trailing a blue firefly: 'We gotta talk.'
Josephus Miller, the exiled Ceres detective who died within the transformed Eros as it fell to Venus, returns at the book's very end — not alive, but as an apparition manifested by the protomolecule that consumed him. He appears in the Rocinante's galley as if he'd always been there: rumpled gray suit, dented porkpie hat, a bright blue protomolecule firefly flying off his cheek, which he waves away like a gnat. His expression is one of discomfort and apology.
Just after the protomolecule structure has risen from Venus and flown into the void, Miller's first words to a stunned Holden are the book's last: 'Hey. We gotta talk.' Whatever the departed entity has begun, it now reaches back to Holden through the shape of the dead man who once chased its origin.
A worn detective in a rumpled gray suit and dented porkpie hat, a blue protomolecule firefly drifting from his cheek; apologetic, uncomfortable, uncannily just-there.
The dead detective returned as a protomolecule apparition, seeking out Holden as the book closes.
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