I think Commander White will want them in one piece.'Captain Josh Hunter watched the man take Commander Hutcheson onboard the shuttle and waited to se...e if their plan would work. The ramp went up into the ship and the hatch closed. A few seconds later, it came back down and they were up and over the edge of the bank, running for the shuttle. Running up the ramp, he pushed the woman at the door against the wall and pulled out some plastic ties, tying her hands together behind her back. "Sorry. Your mind races trying to remember and process your surroundings. As a captain of a small company of soldiers you were sent to capture a local tribe that has been raiding your newly founded Roman colony. Your task was thought to be easy by the colony's elders, since it was rumored the tribe was made up mostly of women, and thus it was conjectured that their men had been decimated in battle with some other tribe. Initially, you resisted your orders, finding it distasteful to enslave women, but. However, many of the side and sub-contracts had yet to be awarded. Someone had to win the contracts. Dean and Dowd had friend and family interests they wanted to promote, so they had sandbagged Donna Lee. It made me tired, but the political landscape made perfect sense.The question, as always, was what I wanted to do about it. I could have used my position for leverage in the Beacon Light project, but that was firmly established near Manchester. Cloudrest was still a ways down the road and was. The wall below these was entirely covered in mirrors, reflecting a dizzying view of the whole queue and, behind them, the rest of the room.Disorientated, it took a couple of seconds before Emma found herself in the reflection. There... standing next to a man in an expensive gilet and combat trousers. A sheet of mahogany hair that hung midway down her back, shot through with hints of darkest auburn. She brushed back from her face as she focused on herself. Pale skin, very British. Eyes too big,.