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"Just a feeling Itthe rest of the trip

"Well, Valek, any new promotions?" the Commander asked as we entered his office

"No But Maren shows promise Unfortunately she doesn’t want to be in my corps or even be hted by the challenge

"And can she?" the Commander inquired His eyebrows rose

"With ti She’s deadly with her bow; it’s just her tactics that need work"

"Then what do we do with her?"

"Pros We could use some fresh blood in the upper ranks"

"Valek, you never had a good grasp of military structure"

"Then promote her to First Lieutenant today, Captain tomorrow, Major the next day, Colonel the day after, and General the day after that"

"I’ll take it under adviselance I was dawdling, and he had noticed

"Anything else?" he asked Valek

I finished tasting, placed the Corabbed my arm "I’d like to try an experiment I want Yelena to taste the Criollo every time you do for a week, then the next week I’ll taste it for you I want to see if anything happens to her when she stops eating the dessert"

"No" The Conize your concern, but I think it’s misplaced"

"Humor me"

"We can try your experiment once Rand duplicates the recipe from General Brazell Acceptable?"

"Yes, Sir"

"Good I want you to jointhe cooling season, and he’s already worried about snow cats" The Commander’s eyes found me "Yelena, you’re dis at the baths to wash, I visited the kitchen to borrow a large sieve and bohich I carried to the library The re to rot, so I opened the pulp and seeds into the colander, and placed it into the bowl Its bottom and sides were suspended above the inside of the bowl by theodor from the seeds permeated the room I set the bowl on the sill, and opened theto air out the smell My experiment wasn’t based on any scientific research; I just wanted to see if the pulp would fer it toof the various botany books hadn’t revealed anything useful so far The poison books, while interesting, had made no mention of Butterfly’s Dust In four different volu up froes where the paper had been ripped out Valek had probably reo in anticipation of the food tasters’ keen interest in Butterfly’s Dust