When Two Governors Meet

[Doc Holliday]

He was taking in the view as he entered the room before an offer of anything was made. Doc was very smart and could see this building was as meant for protection as it was his work. Finally, he would accept the handshake.

"It is a pleasure to meet you as well, Governor," he replied during the handshake. "We have much to discuss and in a short period of time no less." With that, they released hands and he still looked about in a bit of awe.
"Oh, um, I would like some mineral water, please, since you are offering."
He noticed the construction.

"This is quite the office you have here," said to him. "It would be a lot more than I would want or even need but I do not need much in the way of protection." He then sat down and began their meeting.

"I am glad that you allowed me to come here," he began. "I commend you. You are the first Liberty official to not ignore my requests or shut me down completely. That in and of itself speaks loudly to me anyway."
The drinks then arrived. He sat back a little to get comfortable and sipped his water.
"Orange," he commented with a light smile. "Perfect." He then got to the point.

"I am not here to threaten you in any way, Sir. It is my hope that you take what I say with some serious measure. While I am not a man of violence, I share the anger and mistrust of the Zoners on this planet. The militants will continue to fight and they will target government officials. For now, they seem to have placed their trust in my wisdom. For the record, I will patch up people on both sides as I do not deny attention to one who needs it and I start with whoever is hurt the most."

"The Zoners are angry. They feel betrayed by a government who came to help with the Rogue problem but never left. I feel betrayed as my medical teams taught the 46th combat medicine under the contract of the late James Horatio Creed, a man who's life I saved and even though he is now gone, I respected him. In return two of my ships were destroyed by Liberty pilots outside of Erie orbit."
He sipped his water.
"I know who destroyed that satellite," he continued. "Your war with the Insurgency bled over to Zoners living in peace on the surface. Did they hide amongst us? No doubt but they did it well and a lot of Zoners were falsely imprisoned and tortured over it when most knew nothing. They now see the Liberty government in the same negative light that we see Bretonia after what they did to us on Gran Canaria."

He continued. "You will probably laugh but the only way they will halt their actions are when a Zoner government is in place. Then and only then can we get a serious dialogue between them and Liberty. They have made this abundantly clear and would kill me as sure as they would you if I got in the way. Some of them see me as their true governor even if I did not ask for it. As you can see, we are far apart and have much ground to cover."

He lightly smiled. "I know you are an intelligent man and want to work this out as much as I do. Both of us may well depend on it."

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