Ruined Memories (THE RIM CONFEDERACY Book 7) by Rudnick Jim

Author:Rudnick, Jim [Rudnick, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Publisher: RUDNICK PRESS
Published: 2016-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

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Later that evening, over what could only be called drinks, Tanner nodded at the Lady St. August, and yet he frowned at the same time.

Still in high orbit around Memories, the Sterling had arrived with a group of the refugees for their visits down to the planet tomorrow, but Tanner had been quickly invited over to the Sterling for a private dinner with Helena.

They had had a nice dinner prepared by the Sterling chefs, and he especially enjoyed something called foie gras, which appeared to be the liver of a duck. A huge Garnuthian duck, he assumed, as the delicate yet oh so tasty slice had been all of nine inches across. Seared, he thought, and with some kind of reduction—but hey, I'm a navy guy not some kind of gourmet—but boy it had tasted great!

Since the dinner, they'd been talking. She talked about her latest readings in the Blood of the Barony—the book that was passed down from one baron to another, generation after generation, that held whatever a baron or baroness had wanted to write down. Handwritten. From the minds and souls of the men and women who ruled billions. Thoughts on what they did or said or planets they conquered or lost to over the thousands of years since the book began. The fact that the Baron who had died just a few years ago had passed it to his daughter, the Lady St. August, instead of to his wife, the current Baroness, said much. And the book, as Helena said repeatedly, had much to tell.

They talked about Throth and her recent visit to see how the Ikarians had settled into their new home world. She had been pleased with just about everything she'd seen and heard, and the children? Thousands of them all within a year or two in age, yet studious, solemn, and the most polite aliens she'd ever met. Ahanu was the best greeter and tour leader she'd ever had in visiting more than sixty planets here on the RIM, and yet, there was still something about him that made her think there was more there, hiding somehow.

Tanner was grateful she avoided the subject of the Ikarian payment for the Atlas. She had been at his side when the Ikarians turned over some of their children to the Seenra to pay the bill for the new Atlas ship, and that was something he would never forget. He'd been most upset that the Barony had given the Ikarians a world of their own and in exchange, the Ikarians gave up those children to the Seenra—so that the Ikarian virus could be made into a vaccine for their race. Wrong, plain wrong, but then as a mere captain here on the RIM, it was way above his pay grade.

Helena shared about the Sterling and her thoughts that her captain, Flannery was his name, was getting ready to pull the pin and retire, and what was she to do about that? Finding a good captain—one who could handle a Royal every single day—was an issue she was not looking forward to for sure.

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