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BattleCorps
BattleCorps




BETRAYAL OF
IDEALS
Book III: The Switchback Directive

Blaine Lee Pardoe
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The Grand Council Chambers
Strana Mechty
Clan Space
8 October 2823

The usual murmur of low voices went silent as Khan Sarah
McEvedy entered the Grand Council chambers. All around the
massive, circular table the Khans of the twenty Clans stared at her
as she limped in, aided by a cane. Each step was labored. Her Trial
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of Refusal against the Grand Council over their decision to open
possession Trials over a Brian Cache in the WolverinesтАЩ territory
on Circe had been controversial. Defiance over the word of the
ilKhan, Nicholas Kerensky, was all but unheard of on this scale.
McEvedy felt the eyes of her peers burrowing into her face as she
made her way into the chamber to her seat. She sat slowly, pain-
fully.
The inlaid symbol of his Clan faced her on the table, silent and
defiant. It shimmered in the while light of the massive room. The
silence hurt more than her broken ribs and damaged knee. She
ignored her fellow KhansтАЩ gazes upon her bandaged and bat-
tered body. McEvedy was furious over the actions of her fellow
Khans, especially Khan Jason Karrige of Clan Widowmaker. Like
his namesake spider, Khan Karrige was weaving a web of lies and
deceit, apparently endorsed by the ilKhan. It infuriated Sarah, but
not for the reasons that her agitators would understand. It bothers
me more that they think I am a fool; that I do not know what they
are doing.
McEvedy paused for a second to reflect. How will history judge
my actions in the coming days? Will I be painted as a patriot or
a cancer within the Clans? She knew her peers thought that she
was not as daring as she was willing to be. I will save my people,
no matter what the cost. She glanced at Nicholas Kerensky, then