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r? We're not the
government, you know. I mean, if the council won't talk to them maybe they
know something we don't".
"There's only one way to find out. Besides, every time a ship comes in
somebody has something they want to smuggle in or out. Maybe turning my head
is all it'll take to get their cooperation".
"I don't want you to get in any trouble. It's too early to . . ."
"I'm not going to get into any trouble. Don't worry about me. We all have
to take risks sometimes, and this isn't a very big one".
But Carli's enthusiasm was not contagious, and Wendy pressed Sora's body close
to Sora's lover until morning, even through sleep. Wendy awoke and looked at
the clock. It was still more than an hour before Sora Aoi needed to be up, but
she could not fall back asleep. Sora Aoi kept thinking of the time before the
invasion, the time before Sora Aoi had felt this awful burden of responsibility
for another race.
Sora Aoi was in control systems training in another compound, halfway around the
planet. Sora Aoi was used to the Capitol; the towering seedship monument and all
the sealed domes and passages at the center of the sprawling outskirts made
this gathering of a few dozen major structures seem tiny by comparison.
There were probably n
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