![]() I did not suffer the same fate as that shared by the Hub Mind of Masaq’ Orbital and my one-time colleague and charge, Major Tibilo Quilan. I am Sholan Hadesh Huyler, an admiral-general of the Chelgrian Combined Forces, retired. ![]() The air is clear and the view is sharp and autumn is just beginning. ![]() ![]() I enjoy sitting here in this little café in this quaint hill village, smoking a pipe and drinking a glass of wine and looking out over distant Chelise. She watched the splashes with Chelgrian eyes for a while, then became a cloud of dust in which the biggest single components were the nanomissiles.īy the time the warhead in Eweirl’s brain exploded a few minutes later, she had become an attenuated column of grayness sucking itself up into the sky high above. Skinned and disembowelled, he was light enough-and his entrails sufficiently elastic as well as firmly anchored-for him to bounce up and down on the end of his own guts for a while, jerking and quivering and shrieking, before she let him fall into the salty waves. His intestines unravelled, whipping out of his body in a long, quivering line as he fell. She was still holding his stomach in her hand. He tumbled away, finally screaming in a high, hoarse voice. ![]()
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