Fracture Lines (The Glass Complex Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
the commander commented as she sipped her coffee. She and Steg were enjoying a quiet moment in the officers’ mess, both understanding they had challenges to address after their meal. “What? Oh, yes, they enjoyed patching me up, I think.” Steg recalled the scalpel. “It was touch and go for a moment.” He felt his face redden and changed the subject. “You’re ex-Fleet?” “Retired with a large salvage bounty. My neighbors had no idea of what Fleet life was about, and we had nothing in common. Got bored. So five years ago we purchased Wasp—it was a retired frigate, ex-Alliance Navy—they’d removed all its weapons, of course, although we soon added what we thought were necessary once the War Merchants issued our license. ‘We’ including Rose Curtis, commonly called Curtains—she heads up Weapons, and our Engineering chief, Thi Baan. He’s Tacian, runs his department efficiently. You haven’t met him; he’s always in Engineering. Rose and Thi were on the same salvage trip with me, retired at the same time, and were as bored as me.”
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