They Sold Me to the Ruined General, Now His Ghost Won't Let Go novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: What the Penhallows Kept
They talked in the empty corridor behind the teaching hall, where the lamps were low and the students had gone to lunch.
Edric turned his hat in his hands.
He had gotten thinner in two months.
"The licence lapses on the ninetieth day," he said. "The crews are paid out."
"I'm sorry about the crews," said Idris.
"The freight board has taken the hulls. There will be no more Penhallow Star Freight."
Edric's mouth twisted.
"They've all found places. Your husband's fleet took the pilots. He's a thorough man."
"So I'm told," said Idris.
"I did not come to ask for anything."
"Good," said Idris.
"I came to say a thing, and I find I cannot say it."
Idris waited.
He had waited twenty years at a table, and it turned out he was good at it.
"I looked at your chair," Edric said finally, "after the Council. The one at the end."
He turned the hat again.
"It is eleven feet from the bread."
His voice did not shake.
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