Conquest of Paradise

[Thunderer]

A Valor right there in front of her, instead of Agnes, Elizabeth imagined. It made her flinch a centimeter backward. But this Valor was destroyed and Dagon was not -- not entirely. Every alarm light turned on inside Elizabeth's mind. The prime threat for Bretonian control over Exeter, as Elizabeth saw her, was right there, on Exeter. And Elizabeth could do nothing to stop her. She had intended to call for another platoon to secure Chateau d'Or after Agnes would have left, then ban all arrivals and departures from the planet, and finally arrest her. She was trying to think of a soldier in her ranks, one large enough and with strong arms, to flog Agnes for severe insubordination in front of her other men as an act to establish firmer authority. The prospect of this sweet vengeance kept her spirit high. But Agnes was not Agnes. She was not a commander. This was an admiral in disguise, and an admiral outranked her. Elizabeth's father must have been even more of a terrible man that she had thought, for her to deserve this.

But Dagon seemed to misunderstand her. Elizabeth was not her father. The prime thing she strove to be was not to be like him. "Glory!?", she picked up the word with the same disgust as if she picked up a dead rat. "You think I am after... glory!?"

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