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TRADING IN

DANGER

ELIZABETH MOON

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Contents

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Trading in Danger is a work of fiction. Names, places,

and incidents either are products of the author's

imagination or are used fictitiously.

A Del Rey® Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

The Random House Publishing Group, a division of

Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in

Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Del Rey is a registered trademark and the Del Rey

colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

www.delreydigital.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is

available upon request from the publisher.

ISBN 0-345-44760-3

Book design by Susan Turner

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: October 2003

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To Joshua, without whom this book and several others would not

have seen daylight… and thanks for all the chocolate.

And to all those involved in the matter of the sword: you know who

you are, and you know why.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As usual, this book reflects more than my own limited

expertise; friends, family, and acquaintances all had

useful suggestions and vital information. Some preferred

not to be named here.

Thanks are due to David, Richard, Susan, Julia, Selina,

Joshua, Laura, Ellen, and Sean, all of whom made

innumerable helpful comments. Also the economist I met

on a flight to Tulsa, and whose name I never knew. . .

David R. Watson deserves particular thanks for his

expertise with archery and his willingness to help

choreograph fight scenes.

Anne McCaffrey, with a lift of the eyebrows, solved a

problem I was having when I talked to her about it. Her

words were wise, but the lift of the eyebrows had already

done the trick.

The regulars on the news group, with their

encouragement, helped me over the rough spots. So did

the SFWA Musketeers and Musketeer Auxiliary.

The Florence High School faculty and staff (especially

the special education folks) had a part in this toward the

end, by doing such a great job of easing our son into high

school.

Mistakes and omissions are all mine.

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CHAPTER ONE

^ »

Kylara Vatta came to attention in front of the Commandant’s desk.

One sheet of flatcopy lay in front of him, the print too small for her

to read upside down. She had a bad feeling about this. On previous

trips to the Commandant’s office, she had been summoned by an

icon popping up on her deskcomp. Those had all been benign visits,

the result of exams passed in the top 5 percent, or prizes won, and

the Commandant had greeted her with the most thawed of his

several frosty expressions.

Today it had been “Cadet Vatta to the Commandant’s office, on the

double,” blaring out over the speaker right in the middle of her first

class period, Veshpasir’s lecture on the history of the first century

PD . Veshpasir, no friend to shipping dynasties, had given her a

nasty smirk before saying, “Dismissed, Cadet Vatta.”

She had no idea what this was about. Or rather, she hoped she

didn’t. Surely she had been careful enough…

“Cadet Vatta,” the Commandant said. No thawing at all, and his left

eyelid drooped ominously.

“Sir,” she said.

“I won’t even ask what you thought you were doing,” he said. “I

don’t want to know. I don’t care.”

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“Sir?” She hated the squeak in her voice.

“Don’t play the innocent with me, Cadet.” Rumor had it that if his

left eyelid actually closed, cadets died. She wasn’t sure she believed

that, but she hoped she wasn’t about to find out. “You are a disgrace

to the Service.”

Ky almost shook her head in confusion. What could he be talking

about?

“Going outside the chain of command like this ”—he thumped the

sheet of paper —“embarrassing the Service.”

“Sir—” She gulped, caught between the etiquette that required

silence until she was given leave to speak, and a desperate need to

find out what had the Commandant’s eyelid hovering ever nearer to

its mate.

“You have something to say, Cadet?” the Commandant asked. His

voice, like his face, might have been carved out of a glacier. “Do go

ahead…” It was not a generous offer.

“Sir, with the greatest respect, this cadet does not know to what the

Commandant is referring…”

His lips disappeared altogether. “Oh, you can play the innocent all

you want, Cadet, and maintain that formal folderol, but you don’t

fool me.” He paused. Ky searched her memory, and came up empty.

“Well, since you insist, let’s try this: do you recall the name Mandy

Rocher ?”

“Yes, sir,” Ky said promptly. “Second year, third squad.”

“And you can think of no reason why I might connect that name and

yours?”

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“Sir, I helped Cadet Rocher locate a Miznarii chaplain last

weekend, when Chaplain Oser was away…” A dim glimmer of

what might be the problem came to her but she couldn’t believe

there would be that much fuss about a simple little…

“And just how did you locate a Miznarii chaplain, Cadet?”

“I… er… called my mother, sir.”

“You called your mother.” He made it sound obscene, as if only the

lowest criminal would call a mother. “And told your mother to do

what, Cadet?”

“I asked her if her friend Jucha could refer me to a Miznarii

chaplain near the Academy.”

“For what reason?”

“I told her that one of the underclassmen was overdue for

confession and the Academy chaplain was out of town.”

“You didn’t tell her what he wanted to confess?”

Ky felt her own eyebrows going up. “Sir, I don’t know what he had

to confess. I only know that he was in distress, and needed a

chaplain, and I thought… I thought it would save trouble if I just

got him one.”

“You’re not Miznarii yourself… ?”

“No, sir. We’re Modulans.” Actually, they were Saphiric Cyclans,

but that was such a small sect that nobody recognized it, and

Modulans were respectable and undemanding. You could be a

Modulan without doing anything much at all, a source of some

humor to more energetic sects. Ky found Modulan chapel restful

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