"Elizabeth Moon - Planet Pirates 02 - Generation Warriors" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moon Elizabeth)

to me. You were thinking I'm young to be so old, and I was thinking exactly the same thing about you.
You're younger than I am ..."



"Which doesn't give you the right to play boss," said Lunzie. Then she wished she hadn't. Sassinak's fece
had hardened . . . and of course to her, she did have the right. She was the captain of her ship, one step
below her first star, and she had ten more years of actual, awake, living-experience age.



"I'm sorry," Lunzie said quickly. "You are older, and you are the boss ... I'm just still adjusting."



Sassinak's quick smile almost reassured her. "Same here. But I do have to be the boss on this ship. Even
if you are my great-great-great, you don't know which pipes hold what."



"Right. Point taken. I will be the good little civilian." And try, she thought to herself, to adjust to having a
distant ofispring not only older than herself but quite a



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bit tougher. She leaned forward, setting her mug down on the table. "What are you thinking of doing?"



"What we need/' said Sass, frowning at nothing, "is a lot more information. The kind of proof we can
bring before the Council meeting, for instance. Take the Diplo problem. Who's been contacting whom,
and whose money paid for that heavyworlder seedship? Which factions of heavyworlders are involved,
and do they all know what they're doing? Then there's the Paraden family. I have my own reasons to
think they're guilty, root and branch, but no proof. If we could get someone into position, some social
connection ..."



Lunzie picked up her mug, gulped down the last of her drink, and tried to ignore the hollow in her belly.
Was she about to do something stupid, or brave, or both?
"I ... might be able to help with the Diplo bit."



"You? How?"