The Odyssey and the Iliad (Kinsella Universe Book 7) by Gina Marie Wylie

Author:Gina Marie Wylie [Wylie, Gina Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 11 -- End Game

Two days later Yolanda was talked into a docking in the Cold Dark. She wasn’t surprised to see that Marines were waiting for her, but was more surprised when they weren’t for her, but for her ship and the Alabama.

The people waiting for her were an odd lot. A young woman of about twenty-five, wearing an admiral’s uniform, another young woman wearing the uniform of a Fleet commander and a third wearing a lieutenant’s insignia. All three were roughly the same age.

There was a fourth woman, wearing a very different shipsuit, maybe ten years older than the trio of Fleet officers. There was a young man present, one also wearing stripes of a lieutenant, but he looked as old as Yolanda.

When two Marines headed for the Mad Hatter’s docking tube, Yolanda couldn’t help snickering. The admiral glanced at her when Yolanda snorted.

“Is there an issue, Miss Ruiz?” the admiral asked.

“You’d better whistle up more Marines. Don’t you people believe in photometry?”

The woman in the shipsuit that Yolanda didn’t recognize smiled. “The Union doesn’t feel it is our place to give the Federation advice on how to conduct the war.”

“I’m not sure what you mean,” the admiral said. “Two should suffice for a shuttle.”

The woman shook her head. “You need to fire your sensor department. What, you saw two ships, one larger than the other? You’re assuming the Alabama was the larger of the two.”

The female admiral grimaced.

“Wonderful! Colonel Trimble, a dozen more men to deal with the shuttle!”

The admiral drew herself up. “Yolanda Ruiz?”

“Yes,” Yolanda replied.

The admiral smiled wanly. “You will have to excuse me as I send the children to bed. Colonel Grimes, Commander Booth, Lieutenants Carter, Yardley and Rosen, Senior Pilot Officer Makaa, please remain. The rest of you are dismissed.”

“Those of you I named, come with me.”

Yolanda was led to an electric cart, and then whisked to what was obviously a conference room. She was seated next to the admiral; never in her life had Yolanda met such a formidable personality, not even her mother.

When they were gathered in the room the admiral contemplated them all for a moment. “This is, for me, an open-ended meeting. Some of you will be asked to leave at times, others will be included. If I’m not in the room, talk about the weather on Jupiter. I have it on good authority that the storm represented by the Red Spot is finally breaking up after having been a feature for perhaps a millennia.

“Senior Pilot Officer Makaa, do you know the individual known as ‘Yolanda Ruiz?’”

“I know of her, sir. I had very infrequent contact with a sister of mine. I was the younger, and Nita was selected to go to the Federation when I was still an infant. Some years ago, I received a birth announcement of her daughter. My sister is the proximate reason why I am here today. It would be a good thing if you ever bring me into proximity with Captain Moore again that you make sure I am restrained.

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