De Opresso Liber : Snippet Sorilla’s eyes returned to their customary chocolate brown and she looked away, making him kick himself even though it was both true and something she needed to talk about. After her last mission, when she got back to the world and learned the fate… or, rather, not learned the fate of Task Force Valkyrie, Sorilla had shut down for a time. She’d earned her last fast track promotion then, having accomplished the mission assigned her, but so far hadn’t shown any inclination to return to the field. He knew that Psyche were considering discharging her from the Special Forces, possibly from the military. An eightball release wouldn’t do her any good, however, and he wasn’t the only friend she had who knew it. Not that he blamed her, not really. The loss of Task Force Valkyre had been a communal shock to the psyche of ever serving spacer in the Solarian Corps. The civilians didn’t really get it, but that was because they hadn’t been told the truth. Most people thought that the Task Force had gone out in a massive battle against the enemy, destroying both forces. Alexi was one of very few people outside the upper echelon of the Solarian military and joint nation administrations who knew that simply wasn’t true. There was no evidence of a battle. No debris, no wreckage, not even any beacons aside from the last message sent by Valkyre. That might have been explained by the enemy Gravity Valve technology, except that there were no wrecks of the alien ships either. And Alexi knew well that had they survived they would not have stopped their advance on Hayden and, beyond, to Earth. That they hadn’t, combined with the enigmatic message from Valkyrie, was evidence enough that somehow the Admiral had accomplished her final mission. How she’d pulled that off was now possibly the greatest ghost story of all time, and unless something drastically changed, he had no doubt that Admiral Brooke and her people would be legends long after every other living person of the day were wiped from memory. If nothing else, He thought with a certain vicious satisfaction, I bet the Alliance speaks her name to scare children and rookie spacers alike for the next few centuries.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 01:55:42 +0000
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