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The Mag Force 7 Book 1 - Knights Of The Black Earth, The
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. It was more of a change you could feel. All I know is that Tusk lived when he should have died. And Dion Starfire was the man who did it. That's what he's like." "Why are you telling me this, Xris?"
"I don't know. Maybe because I've been thinking about it a lot lately. Maybe because his wife reminded me of my wife. Maybe because I always wondered if Tusk felt the same way about being healed that I sometimes feel. That it might have been better to have died."
Rowan lowered her head. Her hand on the keyboard clenched into a tight fist.
"What is it you're not telling me?" Xris asked.
"Not now, Xris," she murmured. "Not now."
He hung around for a while, but Rowan didn't say anything more. She went back to the computer, went back inside her machine. Finally he left, climbed back down into the launch module to see if he could help Quong and Jamil fix the PVC.
Either that or help Raoul decide between the red silk or the gold outfit with the sequins.
Twelve hours to go.
CHAPTER 35
SO a skillful military operation should be like a swift snake that counters with its tail when someone strikes at the head, counters with its head when someone strikes at its tail, and counters with both head and tail when someone strikes at its middle.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The drop ship, intruder shields up, entered into orbit around Ceres, slid silently and invisibly into place amidst the space traffic
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