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in
immediately detention,” she said, “and surrender them to me, when
ordered to do so. Diplomats will be arriving soon. You will prepare a place
where we can meet to discuss peace, and the future of Midgard.”
    We await your diplomats. I ask only one
thing.
    “Which is?”
    Return to us those who have been sent to
the embarkation point, that they should avoid the Hunter’s wrath.
    “Agreed. Where is this place you speak
of?”
    The first man savagely kicked the second
man, who was still on the floor.
    Tell them.
    The fourth moon, of the fifth planet.
    “Thank you,” said Vonda.
“Lock up all the seers. I’ll be in touch with you again soon.”
    Your will be done. Will you send the
Hunter away before he destroys us?
    The man was terrified of me!
    “I cannot send him anywhere. However,
he will be leaving soon.”
    I await your next command.
    He bowed low, and the channel closed.

Seven

    I opened a channel to Custer.
    “You can stand down General. There’s
no need for a ground action. We are however, going to visit a station, so we
may need you then.”
    “Understood.”
    The channel closed.
    “What just happened?” asked Amy.
    “Which part?” asked Alison.
“Someone being terrified of Jon? Or the war being based on a lie?”
    “Both.”
    I put my face in my hands, and just sat
there.
    “Classic power play in my
opinion,” said Vonda. “Exploit something the people worry deeply
about, gain power for yourselves, create an enemy, and get rid of those people
who might threaten you by sending them to fight. It never occurred to them the prophesy
might contain a real person, who would stop them.”
    “Doesn’t explain why he was terrified
of Jon though,” said Amy.
    “I don’t know,” said Vonda.
“Wrath is a pretty powerful word to bandy about.”
    “Who are you really Jon?” asked
Alison. “Or what are you?”
    I let my hands fall away from my face, and
looked at her. She had her serious face on, but the twinkle in her eye, and the
twitch of her lips, told me she wasn’t being serious.
    Vonda laughed at Alsop’s expression. He had
that swallowed-a-frog look on his face again.
    “Email from Slice, Jon,” said
Jane.
    I dug out my pad, and threw the vid to a
side screen.
    “Admiral, first planet done, moving to
the second. Have you checked the tactical display for this system? If not, I
think you’ll find it interesting.”
    “What’s he talking about Jane?” I
asked her.
    “This.”
    Another screen popped up showing the
positions of the planets around the star.
    “Hooley, dooley,” I exclaimed.
    “What are we looking at?” asked
Amy.
    “This,” I said with a flourish,
“is how the system looks from above at the moment. All the planets are
almost lined up in one neat line, nearly ninety degrees around from the jump
points. There’s less than a five percent deviation.”
    “Is this good?” asked Alison.
    “It’s very rare,” said Jane.
“In some systems, it only occurs once in tens of thousands of years.”
    “And it’s happening here now?”
asked Vonda. “Is that significant?”
    “Could be,” I said. “For
Seers, it’s too obvious an omen to pass up on using to justify whatever you
want people to do for you. Wars have been fought before based on much less of
an omen than this one.”
    “Makes Slice’s job easier too,”
said Jane. “Took him the same time as us to get to the first planet. Now
he can do all of them in the same amount of time, instead of having to cover
the entire width and length. Also means the Orbital station is not all that far
from us. Half an hour or so, depending on exactly where it is.”
    “What do you want to do now
General?” I asked her. “The main fleet needs to find this missing
station, but you probably should remain here.”
    “I could move to Custer.”
    “No, better make it Warspite. They
need to see something significant in orbit for a while. When the rest of the
Sci-Fi fleet finishes their patrols, they can form a blockade