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Chapter 82 - The Administrator[]
Celestial Palace, Zi-Jin Cheng (“Forbidden City”)
Sian system
Capellan Confederation
3150
"Bloody brilliant." Daoshen Liao said. "Brilliant. She's made Stone come to her as a supplicant." His tone reflected envy, "And invited the leaders of the rest of the Inner Sphere to witness his humiliation."
"Will you attend?"
"To see Devlin Stone go home empty handed?" Daoshen asked rhetorically, "To see the Proud 'Hero' crawl and beg and be denied?? I want to bring popcorn and balloons!" he laughed viciously, "The humiliation he saddled the Capellan people with, and now he is going to be told 'no' to his face? I can't wait to go!"
He gestured at the still hologram. "Why is it? How can it be? the Lyrans called the duplicitous bastards out!!" he sneered, "FINALLY, someone sees the grasping ghost of the Master for what he really is-what he really has done! Someone besides us sees him for what he really is, what his 'republic' really is!!"