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"And so my family was the re stays quiet for a long ical political move But he’s my father …"

"Then also consider this"

She waves her hand and a holo ignites on the floor, rising to fill half the roos smoke Grays es the ie A dozen more dance across the room A wo still

I stare down at the sudden horror

"Is this Mars?" I ask, fearing for n traces a finger through the muzzle of a pulseRifle as it fires "It’s Venus"

"Venus?" Mustang whispers "There are no Sons of Ares on Venus"

"Nor will there be after tonight The flas racked this Society My Politicos and Praetors and various high-level personnel throughout the empire have initiated Order Zero No media will report this Wherever there are fla your father did not do, Mustang In fact, he allowed the Sons to thrive To spread here"

I warned Harn crouches in front of Mustang "Your father ed the very woman the Sons of Ares used to start all this His face burns across their propaganda If he goes, if we strike them, then they fade We will kill two birds with one stone Arrange the transfer of power to Bellona, and Mars is at peace for the first tin All it costs is fifty lives I know he is your father, but you ca, I understand that reason now, and it breaksto theas if fleeing the decision She stares out at a ship passing in the distant fog "When Mother was alive, he used to ride withand lay in the red flowers, arels That man is dead Do with the new one as you like"

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The Obsidians escortjovially on the marble floors When we reachon her--knowing she wants what she can’t have Gorydaas o to market and buy you a servant Pinks Blues Obsidians of your very own For now … I left you a present" He gestures into my room where a lithe Pink lies on the bed "Enjoy"

"You don’t know me at all Do you?"