“It’s my greatest regret, I think. That he couldn’t live to see his son wear his helm. And you become what he always knew you to be.” “And what’s that?” I ask, watching a Red Howler jump twice with his gravBoots and rocket off the edge of the hangar to enter the open cargo hatch of a passing troop carrier. “Someone who believes in the people,” he says delicately. I turn to face Dancer, glad that he’s sought me out in my last moments here among my kin. I don’t know if I’ll ever return. And if I do, I fear he will see me as a different man. One who betrayed him, our people, Eo’s dream. I’ve been
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