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could also see nothing but pain and grief in their futures.

тАЬThe air speed indicator only showed five hundred knots!тАЭ
interrupted John.

тАЬIt only registers up to five hundred knots, you knew that!тАЭ

тАЬI thought weтАжтАЭ

тАЬOh, do shut up!тАЭ said Michael wearily. He knew he was as
much to blame as John. They both knew they were to blame.

The elderly flyer was pushing more than eight hundred knots
when the Imperial traffic cruiser had nailed them fair and square. One
simply does not exceed the speed of sound in the lower atmosphere
without incurring a great deal of official wrath. The sonic shock wave
upsets livestock and poultry and disturbs the general populace. John
had been briefly tempted to use all of the newly available power to
outrun the law but the old flyer had already been protesting the stress
on its lightly built airframe, any faster and it might have come apart.
And even John knew that you could never really outrun the law.

Now they were cooling their heels in a holding cell that rarely
held such young miscreants and indeed rarely held any miscreants at
all. At least they had been allowed the one message to relatives,
however that was at best a mixed blessing.

The watch officer at Malta now had visions of a long tour of duty
on the far side of Mercury, or worse. One of his men had just arrested
the EmperorтАЩs son and to put the icing on the proverbial cake, Sir Ian
MurphyтАЩs son as well.


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The polished black Imperial shuttle landed close in to the
building, completely ignoring the marked off parking slots. Overhead,
six of the new Viper class fighters orbited the facility, also in violation
of traffic procedures.

At least the weather was nice.

тАЬWhere are they now?тАЭ Daniel was doing his very best to be
correct and civil in tone to these people who had only done their job.

тАЬIn the holding cell, Your Majesty. Procedures required