She walked out to the threshold of the library, and unrolled the parchment. It read: HAVE THAT WOMAN GIVE UP COMMAND OR WE COME TAKE IT. So that was what this was all about. Elliot thought of the whispers about Commander Woodsinger this summer, the captains no longer allowed on missions, the rising discontent. Commander Woodsinger had been the hero of the last war, but people’s memories were short, and there would always be another war. Someone did not want a woman in charge of the Border training camp. Someone had been willing to go beyond whispers and petty vandalism. Elliot wondered who had
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