A Circle of Celebrations: the Complete Edition
“said Captain Daniel Holcomb.
“No,” said Quartermaster Betty Jackson.
“Fifty.”
“No.”
“Twenty?” Holcomb asked, becoming more exasperated by the moment. He leaned over the white enamel table to glare at her. “Dammit, woman, this is for the crew’s mental well-being.”
“I’m thinking of their future well-being,” said Jackson, imperturbably, sitting with her arms crossed. “These are our brood flocks you’re so blithely decimating.”
Dan Holcomb, captain of the Earth colony ship Columba, didn’t consider h...imself unreasonable, but he disliked being at a tactical disadvantage. A rangy, sandy-haired man whose height was all in his legs, he was sitting when he should have been standing, the better to get the others’ attention, but sitting was more of an authoritative posture, and that was important just now. He regretted deeply making this a public meeting, but too much had happened in the last thirty-seven days to make it a confidential discussion. All important discussions needed to be held out in the open, or rumor would distort all the good that came out of them.MoreLess
“No,” said Quartermaster Betty Jackson.
“Fifty.”
“No.”
“Twenty?” Holcomb asked, becoming more exasperated by the moment. He leaned over the white enamel table to glare at her. “Dammit, woman, this is for the crew’s mental well-being.”
“I’m thinking of their future well-being,” said Jackson, imperturbably, sitting with her arms crossed. “These are our brood flocks you’re so blithely decimating.”
Dan Holcomb, captain of the Earth colony ship Columba, didn’t consider h...imself unreasonable, but he disliked being at a tactical disadvantage. A rangy, sandy-haired man whose height was all in his legs, he was sitting when he should have been standing, the better to get the others’ attention, but sitting was more of an authoritative posture, and that was important just now. He regretted deeply making this a public meeting, but too much had happened in the last thirty-seven days to make it a confidential discussion. All important discussions needed to be held out in the open, or rumor would distort all the good that came out of them.MoreLess
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