The answer didn't make me happy. In fact it changed pretty much everything for me. It turned out that Xinga had been a Captain in the Orthodox Royal Guard tasked with protecting a cousin of mine. A cousin who was renowkned as one of the black sheep of a family which had more that its share of them. He'd ignored her advice and caused a minor scandal which had needed a scapegoat. That scapegoat had been Xinga. My family had taken everything from her in the name of protecting a minor royal who was universally considered an idiot and she'd been forced leave everything and make a new life in the Free Zone. She'd been doing that and then been forced to confront me; a senior member of the family which had destroyed her. In the circumstances she'd reacted in the only way she had known.
Understanding that didn't bring me any comfort but at least I knew. What came next though changed my life even more than it already had.
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Tempest Company
Science FictionIn the lawless zone which exists to keep the peace between the great powers; a crew of mercenaries make a discovery which will change one Empire's future.
