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Midshipman's Hope



Seafort 01



David Feintuch




PART I

October 12, in the year of our Lord 2194



1

"Stand to!" I roared, but I was too late; even as Alexi and Sandy snapped to attention, Hibernians two
senior lieutenants strolled around the corridor bend.

We froze in stunned tableau: I, the senior midshipman, red with rage; a portly passenger, Mrs.
Donhauser, jaw agape at the blob of shaving cream on her tunic; my two middies stiffened against the
bulkhead, eyes locked front, towels and canisters still clutched in their hands; Lieutenants Cousins and
Dagalow, dumbfounded that middies could be caught cavorting in the corridors of a U.N.N.S. starship,
even one still moored at Ganymede Orbiting Station.

If only I'd come down from the bridge a few seconds sooner I'd have been in time, but I'd been helping
Ms. Dagalow enter the last of our new stores into the puter's manifests.

Lieutenant Cousins was curt. "You too, Mr. Seafort.

Against the bulkhead."

"Aye aye, sir." I stiffened to attention, eyes front, furious at my betrayal by a friend whose sense I'd
thought I could trust.

Alexi Tamarov, the sweating middy at my side, was sixteen and third in seniority. When I'd first reported
aboard, he'd considered challenging me but hadn't, and we'd since become comrades. Now his antics
withSandy had gotten us all in hot water.