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A NEW
ASSIGNMENT
Three years later
The man struck quickly, a killing blow aimed at the woman’s throat. But
when his hand arrived, her throat was no longer there. She had already
crouched down, landing her own blow to his kidney, hard, and causing
him to grunt in pain.
Still, his body didn’t slow down, and he brought his knee up, aiming for her
crouched form. But again, she moved faster than him, springing backward
and staying low, then launching herself back toward him, a fist driving into
his gut and knocking from him the little wind he had left after the kidney
blow.
She followed it up quickly with a leg sweep that brought him to the floor,
his back landing hard against the barely padded surface. Before he could
regain his breath or plan his next move, she was on him, straddling his
chest, her knees painfully pinning down his upper arms as her fist moved
with lightning quickness straight at his nose… and stopped a mere
centimeter away, so close his eyes had to cross to keep it in sight.
“Yield,” he said lightly, though the word wasn’t needed. It was clear to both
of them that she had already won. “You’re getting better,” he added as she
moved off him and then helped him to his feet.
“I’ve had a good teacher,” came the calm response.
He smiled. “A teacher whom you’ve now surpassed, I’m afraid. But I take
solace in the fact that I’m old enough to be your father. Still, a year ago,
you’d have been the one lying there gasping on the mat.”
Her response was only a returned smile and a nod of acknowledgment.
Then she turned and walked to the edge of the exercise area, grabbing her
towel to start wiping off the sweat from the exertion of the sparring match.
The image of a news report on the viewscreen in the corner of the room
caught her eye as she did so.
“What happened at Yolandra?” she asked the older agent-become-combatinstructor.
He grunted. “Convoy attacked, supposedly by pirates.”
She gave him an inquisitive look. “Supposedly?”
He frowned. “They were actually Leeward Republic privateers. Briefing
came down this morning. You know, if you bothered to read those, you’d
already know all this.”
Shrugging, she didn’t respond.
“Anyway,” he continued. “It wasn’t a simple food shipment from Denton
III to Hothan like the news is telling it. The convoy was carrying some very
special starship components for the naval shipyards in Kipling. And I mean
special. Inner Rim parts.”
She actually found herself very surprised by that little fact. It was a wellknown reality of humanity that the further away a planet or star nation was
from Earth, the further behind it was on technology in general. Sure, every
once in a while, some nation in the Outer Rim or even the Fringe had a
technological breakthrough, but none of them could come close to equaling
the industrial and scientific might of the planets closest to the homeworld.
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