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"It already has," she sighed. "The rumors are already starting to travel out there, to the effect that Ken was faking death so that he could get in one last ...
Jonny grimaced. Yes, that would be what they thought-and within a few days and a hundred kilometers that story would probably be bent completely past recogni...
Chrys shook her head. "Maybe. I can't think that far in the future right now."
"You sure you really feel like working?" he asked, studying her strained face. "Nedt could start the phone repairs alone."
"I'm all right." She reached for Jonny's hand, squeezed it briefly. "I'll see you later, Jonny-and thank you."
She left, and Jonny sighed. "The real thanks goes to you two," he told Eldjarn. The reaction was beginning to hit him, and he suddenly felt very tired. "I do...
"We all did what we had to," Eldjarn said obliquely. "You know, though, that it's not over yet-not by a long shot. Zhu's going to react to this, all right. I...
Jonny shrugged wearily. "I'm like Chrys: I really can't think that far ahead right now."
Eldjarn shook his head. "Chrys can get away with that excuse; you can't. As long as there are Cobras on Aventine, the threat of something like this happening...
"Oh, come on, Orrin-you're talking politics now, and that's light-years out of my experience. I wouldn't even know where to start."
"You start by making the Cobras feel that an attack on the government is an attack on them personally," Eldjarn said. "Ken fought Challinor because the rebel...
Jonny frowned as understanding began to come. "You're suggesting we be brought directly into the government somehow?"
"I think it's inevitable," Eldjarn said; and though his voice was firm, his restless hands indicated his uneasiness. "You Cobras have a lot more of the power...
For just a second Jonny grimaced at the irony. Perhaps, in a small and unexpected way, Challinor had won after all. "Yes," he sighed. "I guess I'll have to."...
Interlude
To the trained and observant eye, the signs were all there.
They weren't obvious, of course. An unnecessary phrase in an official Troft message to the Committee, certain small shiftings of both merchant and perimeter ...
After fourteen years of allowing Dominion ships to pass freely through their territory, the Trofts were getting tired of it.
Vanis D'arl scowled blackly as he stared at the nighttime view of Dome visible through his office window. It wasn't exactly a startling development-half the ...
It went without saying that, win or lose, one of the first casualties of a new war would be Aventine and its own two fledgling colonies . . . precisely the w...
But what were the alternatives? The Committee, which had had to be virtually dragged by the nose to accept the colony plan in the first place, had in recent ...
And if there was one universal rule of politics, it was that a threat that wasn't followed through on would always cost more in the long run.
Reaching over, D'arl touched his intercom. "Yes, Committi?" the young man looked up at him from the screen.
"Have you cross-correlated the Aventine botanical data yet?"
"Yes, sir," Jame Moreau nodded. "It's on your desk, marked 'Aventine Bot/Phys III.' I put it in there while you were at your General Policy meeting."
"Thank you." D'arl glanced at his watch. "You might as well go on home, Moreau; the night staff can help me if I need anything more."
"Yes, sir. Let me mention first that there's one item on that magcard I think might be worth following up, if I understand what you're looking for. It's mark...
"Thank you," D'arl repeated, and broke the connection. If you understood what I was looking for? he thought wryly at the blank screen. If I understood what I...
Sifting through the ordered mess on his desk, he located Moreau's magcard and slid it into his comboard, keying for the double star. It turned out to be an a...
-biochemical response to climatological changes.
He slowed down and read carefully. Backed up and read it again. Called up the last climatological data Aventine had sent, read those, and contacted the dome'...
And at that point there was nothing for the Committi to do but wait. If he had indeed found his elusive keystone . . . but even then there would be a long wa...
In his early days on the Committee, he would probably have felt the uncertainties as a crushing weight around his shoulders. Now, after more than a decade, t...
And in this instance, the universe was kind. Six hours later, when he awoke from a short night's sleep, the results of the simulation were waiting.
Positive.
He read the entire report through carefully. Yes, the keystone was there. Unexpected; unlooked for, really-but there . . . and now it was time to see if the ...
If so, the Dominion was about to see just how the Trofts reacted to a change in the game's rules.
Politician: 2421
Jonny shook his head. "I'm sorry, Tam, but you'll just have to make do without me. I'm starting my vacation in exactly-" he consulted his watch "-four minute...
Peering out through the phone's screen, Tamis Dyon's face had already finished the plunge from excitement to shock and was beginning to edge back toward disb...
"I heard you. So what does Zhu want to do, hold a full military inspection of the planet? If the guy wanted pomp, he should've given us more than six hours' ...
"Jonny, I realize you and I are new to this politics business, but don't you think it'll be expected that we'll at least be on hand in Capitalia to greet the...
Jonny shrugged, suppressing a smile. Watching Dyon try to operate in "patient" mode was always an amusing sight. "I doubt seriously that all the syndics are ...
"What makes the difference," Dyon ground out, "is that we have the honor of the Cobras to uphold."
"So you uphold our honor. Seriously, Tam, what's the big deal whether one, both, or neither of us shows up? Unless Zhu's planning a laser light show or somet...
Dyon snorted, but even he had to crack a smile at the image of the dignified governor-general pulling a stunt like that. "He's going to be furious, you know,...
"Don't be absurd," Jonny snorted in turn. Though there had been small problems in that area in the past. . . . "In point of fact, the ship that's making orbi...
Dyon made a face. "Dawa District, right? Grumf. You're right; she does deserve something approaching civilization before disappearing into the cultural depth...