She was not used to being kept waiting. The gray-haired woman stood impatiently in the outer office of Mage-Admiral Lillian Castello, commander of the Royal Martian Navy’s Seventh Cruiser Squadron, and the station commander of the Nia Kriti Naval Base. Stealey had arrived in the system nine hours before and her personal transport had set new speed records closing the distance to the Naval Base. After that rush, however, she’d now been left cooling her heels in the Admiral’s office for forty minutes. She turned back towards the door with its Marine sentry, about to order the neatly turned out young man to stand aside, when it finally slid open. A middle aged woman in the dark blue uniform of a Navy Captain exited the office, presumably the commanding officer of the cruiser they were aboard, the Rising Sun of Gallantry. Alaura was through the door into Castello’s office before the ship’s captain had half-completed her salute.
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