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Trading In Danger - Elizabeth Moon
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TRADING IN
DANGER
ELIZABETH MOON
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Trading In Danger - Elizabeth Moon
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
Copyright © 2003 by Elizabeth Moon
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by
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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Trading In Danger - Elizabeth Moon
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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Trading In Danger - Elizabeth Moon
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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