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Name's Celidon, and he's a proper shit. Kill you in a Vegan instant if
you screw up.'

'I don't get it,' Garvin said. 'Why the hell should the Confederation
highjack one of its own ships?'

'He isn't Confederation,' Petr said. 'Not anymore. He's freelance. Has
been since they booted him out. I heard he was working for some
Protector on... Lamyx... no. Larix. Double name. Larix and Kura, that
was it.'

'What's going to happen next?'

'I think.' Kipchak said, his voice gaining confidence, 'we did get
pirated. Odds are this Protector's after the ship and whatever's in it.
Although how the hell he'd find out about a Confederation troop
movement... beyond me. Way beyond me.

'Fair cagey, though. Unmarked suits, nobody in uniform, probably their
ship's sterile, not a bad chance of getting away with it.'

'So what happens to us?' Garvin asked.

'We're still gonna be in the army,' Kipchak said. 'But it won't be the
Confederation's. And it might be a real long time before we get back to
anything resembling home, if it matters to you.'

'Wonderful,' Njangu said. 'Just goddamned wonderful.'

Petr wasn't listening, but making fast clicking noises with his tongue
as he thought. 'Nope,' he said. 'Not for me, brother.'

'What's not for me?' Garvin asked.

'I'm not serving any Protector,' he said firmly. 'Specially not a
renegade. When the Confederation comes down on this bastard, it'll be
the high jump for anybody and everybody wearing his colors.

'Nope, not for me,' he said once more.

'What can you do?' Njangu asked.

'Don't worry about me. You fellows just keep your heads low and don't
take any promotions. They mostly don't hang strikers in the rear rank.
Sooner or later things'll shake out, or you'll get a chance to slide out
from under. You'll be all right.' Petr's eyes weren't on them, but on
the two guards at the hatch.

'You're taking off.'