Center of Gravity
“Gray asked her.
Shay Ryan turned away from the viewall, her arms still crossed, hands tightly clutching opposite elbows. Ryan was trembling inside and she couldn’t stop it. She despised showing weakness, any weakness at all… .
“I’m fine,” she said. “I’m… fine.”
Gray nodded at the viewall. “The Admiral takes good care of his people.”
The screen currently showed a view of the America from a camera mounted on the outer rim of the shield cap, looking aft. One of the Brandt space tugs, a clumsy-look...ing assembly of spheres and canisters and folded grappling legs that gave it the look of an enormous mechanical insect, was emerging from Auxiliary Docking Bay One. America had, once again, cut her deceleration, in order to launch the SAR recovery vehicle.
“Who is it going after?” Ryan asked.
“Not sure,” Gray replied. “Scuttlebutt says it’s a streaker from the Rattlers. Lafferty? Rafferty? Something like that. Anyway, it wasn’t someone from the Dragonfires, and the Death Rattlers was the only other squadron turning and burning with us out there.”MoreLess
Shay Ryan turned away from the viewall, her arms still crossed, hands tightly clutching opposite elbows. Ryan was trembling inside and she couldn’t stop it. She despised showing weakness, any weakness at all… .
“I’m fine,” she said. “I’m… fine.”
Gray nodded at the viewall. “The Admiral takes good care of his people.”
The screen currently showed a view of the America from a camera mounted on the outer rim of the shield cap, looking aft. One of the Brandt space tugs, a clumsy-look...ing assembly of spheres and canisters and folded grappling legs that gave it the look of an enormous mechanical insect, was emerging from Auxiliary Docking Bay One. America had, once again, cut her deceleration, in order to launch the SAR recovery vehicle.
“Who is it going after?” Ryan asked.
“Not sure,” Gray replied. “Scuttlebutt says it’s a streaker from the Rattlers. Lafferty? Rafferty? Something like that. Anyway, it wasn’t someone from the Dragonfires, and the Death Rattlers was the only other squadron turning and burning with us out there.”MoreLess
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