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won and the ’Mech shut down.
Ward’s Thug didn’t run, but held its position. The flames lapped
up the legs of the ’Mech. The Phoenix Hawk fired jump jets, try-
ing to rise out of the swamp. The jump jets simply opened more
pockets of the gas, setting off minor blasts that rocked the ’Mech
and toppled it into the burning tar. His short range sensors told
Franklin Hallis that the Wolves were too damaged to fight, too hot
to move, and risked cooking off if they stayed. Killing them would
be easy.
That was not the Wolverine way.
“Star Colonel Ward,” he began carefully. “Do you concede?”
The pause was not pleasing. “They told me you were good. You
have proven it. This Trial is over. You Wolverines have won.”
‘They’ who? “Thank you.”
“The shame of this loss will cost me greatly with my people.”
Franklin understood. He had risked much bringing in his last bid.
“I understand. Taking you as a bondsman would be a violation of
the protocol, as you are aware. You fought well. The fact that I
alone remain standing should secure you some of that honor.”
There was a pause. “I salute you, Franklin Hallis.”
He allowed himself a smile. “Honor is paid with respect. I salute
you as well, Ferris Ward.”
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“So Star Colonel Ward brought his cutdown into the fight—this is
not a good sign,” Khan McEvedy said in a deep tone as she obvi-
ously contemplated the information.
“We won the day,” Franklin added.
McEvedy smiled. “Affirmative. You have won. I expected noth-
ing less from you. My concern is beyond this victory, though. The
fact that the Wolves were so aggressive tells me that they too are
with those other Clans that seek to work against us.”
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“The ilKhan?”
Khan McEvedy wondered the same thing. Nicholas Kerensky
was a Wolf as well as the ilKhan. Did this mean that he was
behind the efforts being waged against the Wolverines? That
bothered her deeply. She had known Nicholas Kerensky most
of his life. McEvedy’s father had been with the Star League
Defense Force under Nicholas’s father. The ilKhan had chosen
her to lead one of his newly formed Clans during the civil war.
Now she faced the prospect that the man she had devoted her
life to may be conspiring against her and her people. What have
I done to deserve this betrayal? Her thoughts drifted to Andery,
if only for a second. Andery understood Nicholas best…but he
was gone now.