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Cross secrets. She did not even think of Zor as a security risk. She could
only think of those huge, oblique, elfin eyes, the face like a classical
sculpture's, the tumbling lavender locks of hair that fell past his shoulders,
the hypnotic fascination he held for her.
At the door of her billet in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters, she found
a lush bouquet of pink, black, and red roses, wrapped in silver-and-black
striped metallic paper. The sight of them took all her fatigue away.
Nova Satori pulled them close to her body, inhaled them, and carried
them into her billet. That scent-she drew it in deeply and wished she could
lose herself in it, could live in the Heart of the Rose forever. To be with
Zor, somehow, someday, seemed so hopeless.
I thought love was supposed to make you happy?
In the dimness of a bend in the hallway, Dana patted the sweating
Komodo's shoulder, as they watched Nova's door close from their concealment.
"That completes the first part of the operation, Captain: the
softening-up process!"
Inside her rooms, Nova set down the ALUCE binder and the roses side by
side. There was a note in the flowers, printed in block letters: FROM AN
ADMIRER.
She held up the other note she had gotten that day, the one Zor had
tucked into the ALUCE book. I can't begin to thank you, Nova. Every bit of
information you give me restores more of my memory, more of me.
Then she realized all at once that she had violated the regulations she
was sworn to enforce. What have I done?
So the screwball contredanse continued. Dana tried to convince Komodo
that his flowers were the cause of the lovesickness he saw on Nova's glum
face. Meanwhile, Nova determinedly snubbed Zor and resisted his every effort
to get in touch-yet she felt dangerously drawn to him.
It had Nova so distracted that she screwed up, and flagged a VT pilot
named Dennis Brown-a former aide of Emerson's, yet!-who had been scheduled to
go to ALUCE and was now held back as a security risk.
She hunted the lieutenant down out on the flight line to apologize. He
merely shrugged it off. He looked her over for a few moments and decided she
could be trusted to hear the truth.
"Maybe it's all for the good. You have the computers and you aren't
blind, Nova. Leonard's weeding out all the officers who aren't loyal to him
personally, like some Roman emperor sending all his rivals off to distant
provinces. Thanks to you, though, at least one of us'll be here to keep an eye
on things: me."
He really was thanking her! Nova summoned up a grateful smile and
resolved to bury Brown's name and file where few in the GMP would ever notice
it.
At the far end of the flight line Dana, watching from behind a shuttle's
huge tire, whistled. "Man, that Nova knows how to play the field!" Captain
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CHAPTER FIVE
SPECIAL PROTOCULTURE OBSERVATIONS AND OPERATIONS KOMMANDATURA
(DESIGNATION-"JAMES" PERSONNEL ONLY)
In view of the adverse relationship between Major General Emerson and certain
members of this unit, the transfer of the Singularity Effect-generating
equipment to his flagship will be effected in such a way as to preclude all
mention of or reference to the origins of the aforementioned equipment.
(signed) Zand, Commanding
The 15th's ready-room was dark. Most of the troopers were out on pass or on
ATAC guard duty or dozing. A few, like Robotechnofreak-another term for it was
"mechie"-Louie Nichols, were taking care of maintenance or tinkering with
their Hovertanks down on the motorstable levels.
Bowie Grant sat playing the piano softly. Sometimes he went into the
melodies he had played for Musica, and the ones she had played for him. But
tonight he kept coming back again and again to the ones Emerson had taught him
as a child, when the General introduced him to the piano and fostered Bowie's
love of music. Bowie played his own compositions, the early ones that had made
Emerson so proud. There was no one in the dimness of the ready-room to hear
the music, or to see his tears.
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