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Bemused, you alternate from watching Horne and what you are doing as you cut and pry panels off. Right now, the chiseller is trying and failing to stabilize himself long enough to do something about his misfiring suit. Either he is such a cheapskate that he is not willing to burn boost on the side of his suit to cancel out the spin ... or the sub-unit that is responsible for controlling the boosters is completely non-responsive. You drag your eyes away from his flailing antics and eye the neatly wrapped conduit that he has pulled, floating placidly nearby. You take a good look, then you look back at the conduit underneath the panels that you just worked through. While you are glad to see that there are no signs of conduit worms in this patch of ceiling, that is only because there is barely any conduit here. And what is here is deliberately cut. Pruned away, no doubt in an effort to save the loader from the infestation. You know that you need to start the tedious, delicate work of prying them out in acceptable condition sooner rather than later, but you find yourself staring at the bundles that Horne has, floating around him.
Now, you know the rules full well. Horne has not broken any of them. You have no exclusive 'right' to the cargo bay ... but as a matter of professional courtesy, not to mention respect, wreckers are taught to ask permission to work in on other wreckers. Of course, there are legitimate safety concerns too. If one wrecker notices that there is explosive residue left behind somewhere, or something like that, and that wrecker is working around it, it would be no good for a second wrecker to just barrel straight into the first wrecker's area and start hacking away, unaware of the danger.
To be sure, both of you are equally aware of the danger here - but that doesn't excuse his rudeness or his greed. Horne chiseled in - plain and simple. Messing around with the socket for the loader was admittedly a gray area, but pulling from the ceiling? No, that is unacceptable. You would not expect to get away doing that ... and if other wreckers, who have more seniority, or ones from your certification class who work in groups hear that Horne worked in on you like this and you just ... rolled right over for him, then that - well, you simply can't have that, can you?
By the time that you have pulled yourself across the ceiling over to where Horne is still struggling, you can get a better view of the accident, where you can see shards floating and the scorch marks. If you had to guess, you would say that Horne accidentally cut into a capacitor on one of those little surge protector units, like the one you found earlier, and it blew on him. How that /resulted in a suit misfire, you can only guess ... but really, you aren't here for that. He doesn't notice you at first, and thinking ahead, you shut your radio off completely, so he can't pester you once he catches on.
