A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume III by Sharon Lee

Author:Sharon Lee [Lee, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781476780689
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2015-07-16T05:00:00+00:00

It was the old dream: Herself, the gun heavy in her hand, Grandfather a weight and a wall at her back. Before her, the man who had coldly slain her mother. He looked as his picture, that Grandfather had her study until she knew every line of his face, and would mistake him for no other pilot, on Casiaport or elsewhere.

In truth, it was not an ill-cast face. One could hardly credit that so clear a countenance belonged to a monster—and yet it was so. Grandfather had taught her.

Indeed, indeed, Ren Zel dea’Judan was every inch a monster, no matter how direct his gaze, or sweetly shaped his mouth. For this man, having murdered Elsu Meriandra Clan Jabun, then wrongly called the attention of the portmaster’s office down upon Grandfather’s business, an action that had cast Jabun from its rightful place among Casia’s High Houses—and then? The Balance for this string of murderous mischief? What was brought down upon the head of Ren Zel dea’Judan for his sins against Clan Jabun, and Grandfather, too?

Why, that he should achieve a berth, and rank, on a merchant ship out of Liad itself, while she and Grandfather, the last of Clan Jabun proud enough to bear the name, lived pinched and retired, with neither associates nor allies to support them.

The root of it all was Ren Zel dea’Judan, and for the wrongs he had visited, unprovoked, upon Jabun, he must die.

That had been Grandfather’s judgment, speaking as Delm Jabun.

It was Balance; it was hers to carry and commit, and here he stood before her, trembling as she held the gun, with Grandfather at her back. There would be no failure of her will. She would do her duty. There would, at last, be Balance.

. . . she woke before she pulled the trigger.

She always woke before she pulled the trigger, muscles tight, face wet, stomach roiling.

Carefully, so as not to wake the others, she slid out of bed, opened the window and stepped out onto the catwalk.

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