This was one of those days when it felt as if the trinials hanging down his back weighed twice as much as they normally did, and the news his source had just delivered hadn’t done anything to improve matters.Ganymede. Might as well be right in the heart of old Gaia for all the good the information did him. Perhaps somewhere in the back of his mind he’d had some wild notion that he could go to Lira, speak with her, tell her the five cruisers that had attacked Chlorae II and its people had nothing to do with him. But while a Stacian and a Gaian might meet face to face in the wilder hinterlands of the galaxy, such a thing was completely impossible in the heart of the Gaian system. For a second or two he entertained the notion of having his source pay to hire a Gaian to approach Lira on Ganymede, but that was just as foolish. For one thing, he knew the more people he brought into his confidence, the greater the chance that one of them could betray him to his superiors. A tumble sanctioned by the admiral was one thing.
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