"Moon, Elizabeth - Vatta 1 - Trading In Danger" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moon Elizabeth)She would get him someday. Vengeance, said her grandmother, was an unworthy goal, but this was a special case. Surely this was a special case. УI, Kylara Evangeline Dominique Vatta, hereby resign from the Academy for reasons that reflect on my ability to carry out the duties of a naval officer.Ф Close. Not quite yet. She looked around the room, squinting to bring the titles of the old books into focus. Herren and HerrenТsChronicles of the Dispersion , all ten volumes. Her family owned III through X, but I and II were very rare indeed in paper form. CantabriaТsPrinciples of Space Warfare , evidently a first edition. She longed to pull it down and check, but was afraid to. A row bound identically in blue-gray cloth . . . logbooks, the old-fashioned kind. Those would be centuries and centuries old; she got up and looked at the names on the spines.Darius II ,Paleologus ,Sargon ,Ataturk . . . she felt the gooseflesh come up on her arms, and looked quickly at the last, least-faded volume.Centaurus . Not in fact centuries old, not even one century: these were logs that the Commandant had kept, his personal logs from every ship on which heТd served. SheТd once memorized the sequence on a dare. Her fingers twitched. What She would never know. She had no right to know. The adventures she had hoped to write into such logs herself would never come her way now. She made herself step away from that shelf and look at another. History here, biography there, reference works on all the neighboring states, on the biota of First Colony, on the ecology of water gardens . . . Water gardens? The Commandant studied water gardens? A sound outside in the passage startled her and sent her back to the table, but the footsteps passed by. She stared at the screen again. УFor reasons of . . .Ф Back to the hand reader. Alternate phrasing: Уdue to.Ф Clumsy. Never say more than you need, her father had said; her mother had muttered that Kylara always said more than she needed. SheТd stop that right now. УI, Kylara Evangeline Dominique Vatta, hereby resign from the Academy for personal reasons.Ф Short and . . . not sweet. Nothing about this was sweet. She stared at the screen a long time, glaring at the tiny blue words |
|
|