I Flew the Alien Warlord Past the Blockade, and He Already Knew My Name novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Fall
Nobody moved.
The troopers along the walls stood with their hands at their sides.
The marshals in white didn't look at me.
They were looking at the man in grey who had just shouted an order into a silent room.
"I said seize her," Mordaunt said.
At the Concord table, a captain with a square jaw stood up.
I knew him.
He'd stood in the doorway of the Low Berth and said the Governor would like a word.
"Sir," he said. "I walked that woman to your office last night."
"Captain."
"I stood outside your door. I heard the tea cups."
He unbuckled his sidearm, set it on the table, and took a step back from it.
"No, sir," he said.
A second officer stood, and then a third.
Officers rose all along the Concord tiers, in grey and blue.
One after another they laid their badges down in front of them, and the clicks went round the hall.
At the very top of the tiers an admiral with three stripes on her sleeve got up slowly.
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