The Second Life of the Malicious Colonel's Daughter novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Formation
The general walked to the lectern and stopped beside Colonel Redfern without a word.
Redfern's mouth was still open on the middle of a sentence.
"Thank you, Colonel," the general said into the microphone. "I'll take it from here."
"Sir, I wasn't finished."
"You were."
Redfern stepped back one pace.
It was the first time I had ever seen him not know where to put his hands.
The general looked out at the field, at the gray shirts, the dress uniforms, the three families in the front row.
"This morning the names of the three soldiers who died on the Tolliver grade will be read by the family of one of them," he said. "Mr. Doran."
Isaiah stood.
He walked up the steps in his dress greens and stopped at the lectern.
He did not have a badge on his belt, and every officer on the field could see the bare place where it had been.
He unfolded the card in his hand.
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