It was a slight miscalculation that I was still on Bressia when the Ouster hordes arrived. A few months’ difference. A military-political analysis team should have been there in my place. It did not matter. Hegemony purposes were served. The resolve and rapid-deployment capabilities of FORCE were properly tested where no real harm was done to Hegemony interests. Gresha died, of course. In the first bombardment. And Alón, my ten-year-old son. He had been with me…had survived the war itself…only to die when some FORCE idiot set off a booby trap or demolition charge too near the refugee barracks
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