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Juno continued as if he hadn’t heard me. “Breathe in, breathe out. You are now completely relaxed.” I was not at all relaxed.
And Juno? I asked. He keeps telling me I am relaxed. I am not.
“I know,” I said. “But at the end of the day, it’s my call that saves people or gets people killed.” Maybe both. Stars, why was it always both?
“And we will feast on the souls of all who dare to harm our beloved city,” Goro said. “I sure hope that’s metaphorical,” FM muttered, then turned to me.
did not give up on her,” Juno said. “I simply said she appeared to have less aptitude for mindblades than you do. It wasn’t a qualitative judgment.” “To Alanik it probably felt like one,” I said.
“Rig,” I said. “I don’t want to scare you, but I’m going to try something.” Rig poked his head out of the command room. “Something more scary than dumping hundreds of unknown taynix at our feet?” “Potentially,” I said. “Or maybe nothing will happen. I don’t know.” “So either you’re going to scare me or nothing will happen.” “Right,” I said. “You can keep working. I just wanted to warn you.” “About potentially nothing.” Stars, I shouldn’t have said anything. It would have taken less time. “Exactly. Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt.”
“You are the Restorer of Lost Souls,” Juno said solemnly. “He Who Hearkens unto Silent Voices, Opener of Locked Doors. Where you go, I will go, shadow-walker.”
“You’re calling this a protocol?” Ulan said.
“They’re watching the tidal levels,” Kauri said. “They say they would like advance notice before your planet decides to visit again.” “Tell them we’ll call first next time,” I said. “And let me know if we need to move again. We can keep trying until we get it right.”
“Like the Saint says,” Kimmalyn said, “if you don’t have anything to say, you might scare your flightleader into thinking you’re dead.”
was simply trying to do what I thought you would do if you were here,” I said. Cobb gave me a look, and I stuttered. “I may not have predicted that perfectly,” I added. “In this case, that only seems like a good thing.”
