Conqueror
“The staff meeting had taken several hours, and it was not the only official gathering of his working day. "Middle age and Bureaucrat's Bottom is creeping up on all of us." "Good work, Muzzaf." He tapped the sheaf of billeting and supply files before him. "Without you, we'd have had to do all this ourselves." The slimly elegant Komarite bowed in his chair. "Willingly I suffer the emplumpment of the civil service in your cause," he said.
The Companions grinned; a few groaned in sympathy....
"One of us should escape," Gerrin Staenbridge said, leaning back and puffing on his cheroot. "Somebody's going to have to deal with the west coast." Nods of agreement: the Forker family still had many partisans on the Costa Dil Orrehene, beyond the Ispirito mountains. A good many of them had refused to come in and swear allegiance.
"None of you," Raj said, "I'm going to quarter Juluk and his Skinners out there until they see the merits of law, order and submission." After a moment's silence, Jorg Menyez spoke.MoreLess
The Companions grinned; a few groaned in sympathy....
"One of us should escape," Gerrin Staenbridge said, leaning back and puffing on his cheroot. "Somebody's going to have to deal with the west coast." Nods of agreement: the Forker family still had many partisans on the Costa Dil Orrehene, beyond the Ispirito mountains. A good many of them had refused to come in and swear allegiance.
"None of you," Raj said, "I'm going to quarter Juluk and his Skinners out there until they see the merits of law, order and submission." After a moment's silence, Jorg Menyez spoke.MoreLess
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