“For what?” Iceni asked. “Do you expect help? From where?”
“I don’t know,” Drakon admitted. “Maybe your knight in shining armor will show up.”
“I don’t have any knights, General Drakon. A wise woman doesn’t depend on someone’s showing up to rescue her.”
“What does she depend on?” Drakon asked, his eyes back on the display as if he were already thinking through their limited options.
Iceni also looked at the depictions of the attacking enigmas, the strong Syndicate flotilla, and their own badly outmatched defensive forces. “She depends on her judgment of whom she can trust, General Drakon.”
Drakon gave out a short, sardonic laugh. “Then why are you here with me?”
“Why haven’t you already pulled a weapon on me?”
He grinned with real humor this time though a dark defiance of fate stayed in his eyes. “Because I never made a very good CEO. Go ahead and call Boyens while I get the ground forces fully activated.”
Perhaps I do have one knight, Iceni thought. A knight of darkness and shadow. But maybe it’s just his armor that is tarnished. Maybe inside that armor is someone who is still capable of doing something that doesn’t bring personal gain, who, as he told me, really does want something worth dying for. Or is he blemished inside as well and just recognizes that our very slim chances will become none at all if we turn on each other now?
She said nothing more to Drakon before she called the Syndicate flotilla with an offer she hoped it would not refuse.
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