TGoaW-108

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==Chapter 108 - The Glow of a Worm inside a Child's Eye==
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The strategy...
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...was working the way I taught her. The key to deep space interception, is understanding that it's not the same thing as atmospheric or low orbital interceptions. Everything in space combat comes down to math, and timing.
My student, my Protege was demonstrating exactly that-her opponents were in disarray, being taken down by a kind of combat they couldn't have drilled for-not with the knowledge store they took with them, the lack of observation, the lack of time to truly contemplate the full meaning of Kearney and Fuchida's equations, and certainly not with their system of tight social control.
Sol's Belters remained apart during the Amaris occupation, this is how they did it-by doing what is unthinkable to terrestrial human minds-not impossible for those minds, simply...not considered.
The Lei Kung is also watching. The key to detection in space, is not more powerful sensors, lightspeed delay means no matter HOW powerful, you only see where you're looking, and only at the speed of light. The key is to bother to look. (and to know enough, to know roughly WHERE to look.)
They still don't see me. I am inclined to keep it that way.
A third one of the loaned cutters is broadcasting their defeat. at this point, the contest is effectively over, or would be in an actual fleet engagement. Cooper's still going. This, I think, may be why he's in their top leadership-he's perceptive and learns quickly.
a good opponent to sharpen my Protege's skills against, he's managed two mission kills for his side, which keeps this bout going, and he's managed to keep his ship in the fight...at least, for the time being, but the wing-pair at Rally point Three are reefing sail again, so the even match he's having with KCGM Paula Pueblo-Lian is about to become very unbalanced indeed.
I watch their vectors. Elizabeth's is perfect, mathematically elegant, as her wingman also slides in at the interval, it's good the jump signature is so small on a Sampan III. Briefly, there is a double image on my telescopes-as they emerge a few seconds before they enter hyperspace thanks to the exceptionally short distance involved.
This was the kind of thing that confused so many of us, the difficulty of grasping effect-before-cause from FTL transit, it drove some of hte A and B models insane trying to resolve the apparent violation of physical reality...but those were much closer to Dharaval's mind-print, and the late Admiral had difficulty grasping irrational concepts while retaining his rationality and reason.
The C models, and my model, were divergent enough from his pattern to handle the paradoxes. Unfortunate, then, that a B model attacking a convoy led to the E series downgrades-frightened men trying to fix a logic problem with meat-cleavers.
Elizabeth's emergence wave stuns the Snow Raven leader's ship...as it would, that close to the point. 
The battle is won, and SAR units are en-route to recover the lost, the wounded and the stunned.
I feel. I feel pride in them-my students, my legacy, have proven themselves.
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