Seconds — those appointed to negotiate and if necessary fill in for the principal fighters in duels conducted by pilots of the Polarin Aerial Fleet — were allowed only one kind of interference: to try and talk combatants out of their folly, or to watch as time ran out and they went to their deaths. This was thought to be a way of reducing the number of frivolous challenges. It had had virtually no effect.
Tag: friendship
The Second
I had less than twenty-four hours to talk him out of it. Watching him across the table, I could feel the faith in my ability to do so dwindling. Howe wore an expression of utter implacability that I knew I could never shift. No matter what I said now, …
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Testimony
Maybe in the future she’d embody the pure-feminine-ideal or something, but right now Suraj had to explain just who Judy was and why she killed herself…
