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"If you like spiced ales, I thought you might like these," the man said. Margiu nibbled one; it
had a refreshing bite. He sipped his own drink, watching her over the rim. She found it
disconcerting.

"We had Lieutenant Suiza in here when she was on a course," he said finally.

That name she knew, of course. Suiza had been added to her family's prayers, and she had heard a
lot about Suiza in the Academy and after. "I've never met her," Margiu said. "But we owe her a
lot."

"You remind me of her," the man said. "She's quiet too."

"She's a real hero," Margiu said. "I'm just a very green ensign."

"You might surprise yourself," the man said.

She did fantasize about that, sometimes, but she knew it was ridiculous. She could be serious,
careful, diligent, prudentтАФand none of those were heroic virtues, as she understood heroism.




ZENEBRA; EVENING SPORTS WITH ANGH DIOR,
CHAUNCY NETWORK


"Lady Cecelia de Marktos, who returned to competition several years ago on one of the D'Amerosia
string, has qualified for the Senior Horse Trials at Wherrin this season on a horse bred at her
own stables, Seniority. With the veteran rider/owner up, Seniority won the Challenge Event for
rising novices, then the Stavenge. The pair are expected to threaten the reigning champion, Liam
Ardahi and the experienced champion Plantagenet, competing under the colors of Orregiemos Combine
. . ."

Viewers saw Lady Cecelia's pleasant, bony, somewhat horselike face, beneath rumpled red-gold curls
. . . then a shot of her exercising Seniority over fences, the horse's gleaming red coat only a
shade darker than her hair, then a shot of them over the last fence of the Stavenge. The video
shifted to Liam Ardahi guiding Plantagenet over the Wherrin Trials' B Course big drop-bridge
combination the year before, freezing on the instant before landing, while the commentator recited
their previous record.

Cecelia grimaced at the display. Like any expert rider, she could find flaws in everything she
did, and would have much preferred to have the vid show her over the seventeenth fenceтАФwhere she
and Seniority had made neat work of a difficult combinationтАФthan that last fence, where Seniority
had jumped flat, and her own hand position showed why. She'd lost concentration for a crucial few



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