The Heart of Valor [Confederation 03] by Tanya Huff

Author:Tanya Huff
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

“. . . then we are having a story.”

“All right, then.” He stood, remembering this time to hunch forward and not slam his skull into the low ceiling.

“I are having a few things to be tying up with my very important story here, so we are leaving tomorrow, then.”

That jerked him erect. “We?” he snarled, rubbing the back of his head.

“There are being no commercial flights from here to Cetem—they are being at the university there. I are having to be traveling Coreward and then be transferring two, maybe three times. That are taking too long.”

“No.”

“You are not being my first choice either.” She waved off his protests. “I are remembering your ship and how scented she are being, but you are being here. I are messaging Sector Central News, and you are being paid.”

“It’s not about being paid, mate.”

She shrugged. “You are not liking others in your space. Retri serintare heh—stop grooming yourself.

This are about the story. You are saying Gunnery Sergeant Kerr are asking questions. She are not a reporter. She are not know how to ask questions. If there are being mind wiping, and she are asking the wrong questions, then maybe they are knowing there are memories they are missing. We are not having time to be dealing with you having issues!”

Both hands pressed hard against the ceiling in a valiant and bloody futile effort to keep it from coming in on him, he sighed. It was hard to argue with the same position that had sent him looking for the reporter in the first place. “You have a point,” he admitted reluctantly.

Crossing the room, she patted him on the knee. “I are always right. You are remembering that and we are doing fine.”

They stopped at midday only because they had injured.

“We’re not making the kind of time I’d like.”

Torin kept her gaze moving over the platoon and not on the purple-gray half circles under Major Svensson’s eyes. “We’re moving into deeper snow, sir. It’s only to be expected, but we’ll make Dunstan Mills before full dark.”

“Think there’ll be a welcome there?”

“I expect there’ll be something, sir.”

“Think we’ll run into whoever attacked us last night?”

That hadn’t occurred to her. “We haven’t seen any tracks, sir. They might be following, but I very much doubt they’re out in front. Not when they still control the system.” McGuinty and Piroj were sitting a little apart from the others, and McGuinty had the staff sergeant’s helmet balanced on his knee.

The major followed her line of sight. “So what’s tech support up to now?”

“I’m seeing if he can pull some particulars off Staff Sergeant Beyhn’s scanner. According to the sergeants, the senior DI gets a better look at the drones.”

“Going to spread the program among the troops?”

“If McGuinty can get it off, sir.”

“Socialist move there, Gunny.”

“Knowledge is power, sir.”

“Yeah, that was kind of what I meant.” He grinned and massaged his left hand through the mitt. “Still no sign of any local drones?”

“No, sir.” The di’Taykan not on watch were clustered around the staff sergeant’s stretcher.

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