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Once a Hero
Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

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CHAPTER ONE
R.S.S. Harrier, near Xavier



Esmay Suiza had done her best to clean up before reporting as
ordered to the admiral aboard her flagship, but the mutiny and the
following battle had left her little time. She had showered, and run
her uniform through the cycler, but it wasn't her dress uniformЧthe
fight aboard Despite had put holes through interior bulkheads and
started innumerable small fires, including one in the junior officers'
storage compartment. She herself, though clean, had not slept well
in . . . however many days it had been. She knew her eyes were
bloodshot and sticky with fatigue; her hands trembled. She had the
stomach-clenching feeling that her best wasn't good enough.

Admiral Serrano looked like an older edition of Captain Serrano,
the same compact trim frame, the same bronze skin. Here the dark
hair was streaked silver, and a few lines marked the broad
forehead, but she gave an impression of crackling energy held just