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==Chapter 65 - The Glow of a Worm inside a Child's Eye==
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The survivor was bound...
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..for her own protection...mostly for her own protection. "This is too much, surely, quiaff?"
"She has resisted standard dosages..." Medtech Leonard stated. "..and induction almost killed her. So no, this is not too much."
in the chamber, Star Commander Kalvan studied the captured spacer. "What is your name?" he asked.
"xuống địa ngục, chân bẩn." she mumbled, and glared through disheveled hair. they hadn't let her keep her skin-tight space suit, but they did let her keep the overgarment with its single bar of rank.
"I know you speak English." Kalvan persisted, "So speak."
"Go to hell, dirtyfoot." she slurred back.
He stood up, and theatrically held up a reader, "Pham, Giao Elaine, generation eleven, fourth birth, Pham-Nickelson mining collective." he read off.
"So why you ask, you umby seyseo?" she spat.
"Rank...Chief Warrant officer? That is new. I did not know the LCAF had Warrant officers."
"Engineering specialist Dhokha!" she muttered.
"Indeed. How do know where you are?"
"Thats because I was awake when your gorillas grabbed me on the float after blowing my ship out from under me."
"We saved your life, does that not count for something?"
"Show me an airlock, I'll walk home." she glared, "an'safer 'n this deathtrap."
"You are aboard a Cameron Class Battlecruiser!"
"And you dickheads are running full press in a combat zone." she spat, "Stupid or suicidal, take your pick, I was better off on the float."
She leaned forward as far as the restraints would let her, "Is that Tobacco on your breath, Dirthfoot? Yeah, safer on the float than in a tub full of innyahwallah dettifeet!!"
"What was your mission?"
"Delivering Solstice gifts for father ******' Christmas. For all the good little boys and girls who know where their helmets are!! but we don't stop for the kids of the Deserters."
This was new. "The...'deserters'?"
"Kerensky and his pack of traitors!! I know who you are, my people? We remember the betrayal for what it was. Just open the door and let me walk out into the black, because I have nothing for you but contempt."
"Sedate her." he ordered the medtechs.
Kalvan made his way to the comm center.
"Tech, spin up our HPG, I must contact Khan McKenna immediately." he ordered.
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