“Did you ever meet anyone famous in the beyond?” Pat asked. “Meeting!” He wrung his hands together with fulsome drama. “You’re talking about the beyond as if it’s some kind of social gathering. Lords and ladies spending the evening together over fine wine and a game of bridge. It’s not like that, Mr. Halahan, not at all.” “But did you?” the mercenary scout persisted. “You were there for centuries. There must have been someone important.” “Ah now, there was that, as I recall. A gentleman by the name of Custer.” Pat’s neural nanonics ran a fast check. “An American army general? He lost a fight
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