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- Author: Emmaline Andrews
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“The time has come for you to uphold the honorable name of Jameson. I
have enrolled you in The Royal Academy for the last two years of your
education and from there, you should get a commission in the Space Corps
with ease. I fully expect you’ll be commanding your own ship by the time
you’re twenty.”
The words filled my heart to bursting, excitement bubbling up inside me
like the fizz in a carbo drink from Earth-that-was. There was only one
problem—they were meant for my twin brother, Kristopher, not for me.
Kristopher and I were the closest of siblings. Years of chronic lung
disease as a child had kept my brother home and I had stayed with him
instead of being sent to a charm school for privileged young ladies and
married off, like others of my social class and sex. I had taken classes
alongside Kristopher from the first, although I was a woman and, to my
father’s way of thinking, not worth educating. But my brother worked better
with me beside him, a fact not lost on his many tutors. Now, though, he was
going where I could not follow. Taking classes in the comfort of one’s home
was vastly different from enrolling in the Academy.
“Father, no.” My brother’s mild brown eyes grew large with horror. “I
cannot go to the Academy now—not when Maestro says my technique is
almost perfected. I need to practice for hours each day. I can work my
lessons into my practice time here, with my tutors, but I am quite sure that
wouldn’t be possible at the Academy.”
Our father frowned, his face filling the viewscreen which hung over the
fireplace like a thundercloud. “I only allowed you to start that music
nonsense in the first place because you were too sickly for school. But my
physician tells me you’re sound now—completely fit. As there is no longer
any need for such idle distractions, I expect you to drop it immediately.”
“Drop it?” Kristopher’s face went pale. “Drop it? But Father, soon I’ll
be eligible to audition for a chair in the First System Orchestra and Maestro
thinks I have a really good chance of—”
“I said you will drop it and drop it you will!” My father’s eyes, the same
dark brown as my brother’s and my own, blazed with anger. “What good is
having a son to carry on my name if he does not honor it in the correct
fashion? There are four Star Commanders in our family and two Fleet
Admirals, including myself. You will continue that proud tradition as you
should.”
“But Father—” Kristopher began.
“I know you are capable,” our father continued, ignoring my brother’s
protests. “Your Astro Navigation tutor has told me what excellent work you
do and your Inter-dimensional Calculus teacher says he has never seen such
a prodigy. I expect you to be at the top of your classes.”
Kristopher and I exchanged a glance.
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