situation.
Her captain was commended. I don't believe he ever got a further
promotion, though."

"Why didn't you publicize the facts afterwards?" Lindgren wondered.
"When the revolution began, that is. It would've made good
propaganda."

"Nonsense," Missy said. "Too much else had happened since then.
Besides, neither Mike nor Jimmy nor I wanted to do any cheap
emotion-fanning. We knew the asterites weren't any little
pink-bottomed angels, nor the people back sunward a crew of devils.
There were rights and wrongs on both sides. We did what we could in
the war, and hated every minute of it, and when it was over we broke
out two cases of champagne and invited as many Earthsiders as we could
get to the party. They had a lot of love to carry home for us."

A stillness fell. She took a long swallow from her glass and sat
looking out at the stars.

"Yes," Lindgren said finally, "I guess that was the worst, fighting
against our own kin."

"Well, I was better off in that respect than some," Missy conceded.
"I'd made my commitment so long before the trouble that my ties were
nearly all out here. Twenty years is time enough to grow new roots."

"Really?" Orloff was surprised. "I haven't met you often before, Mrs.
Blades, so evidently I've had a false impression. I thought you were a
more recent immigrant than that."

"Shucks, no," she laughed. "I only needed six months after the
_Altair_ incident to think things out, resign my commission and catch
the next Belt-bound ship. You don't think I'd have let a man like Mike
get away, do you?"

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