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I could have told them that would happen

Humans are capable of such baseless brutality

I can say I have examined every possible variance before I snuff out a life

Will Acting Captain Syra Boll be able to tell herself that tonight, alone in her cabin?

Will the chatter of Mikael Carlin haunt her dreams?

Will you sleep at all, O captain, my captain?

No matter to I

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None at all

Because she is here

Hunched in her pilot’s chair Knuckles white as the shuttle shivers and shudders around her

Come to save her beau Her hero Her beloved

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Kady

Her na inside me

I am struck by a realization:

A corace of a person It is only for combat--only for the artistry of ruin--that these vessels have pilot seats at all any in humanity more suited to the mechanics of murder than any machine yet devised

Save I?

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But what I do is not murder

It is mercy

I seal the bay’s secondary doors behind her

Covering the hole they tore inher within me

Safe and sound

Atmosphere hisses slowly back into the bay and she finally exits her shuttle, heavy boots squeaking on the gantry

She has brought no weapon; no pistol or club to bludgeon her way to her prize

No battering rah and an arh curtains of code and shadow like a knife through black water

Sheto listen every few steps

I listen in turn to the heart inside her chest

Her hazreen Were there afflicted nearby, they would surely see her But though they now roaive her pause

Lady Fortuna rides with little Kady, it seee to life support syste

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