Chapter 27The cell wasn't any worse than the others she'd been in. I've become a connoisseur of confinement, Lydia thought.
What differed was the level of security surrounding it. The Bogiati Military Prison on the island of Aegina was encircled with the elite corps of brigadiers. The island itself was surrounded by a fleet of ocean-going vessels whose combined deck space exceeded the island's square footage. Overhead circled a fleet of aircraft whose sides bristled with so many guns they looked like porcupines. In subspace orbit was an armada of spacecraft equipped with so many blasma cannon that they could have seared the surface of Gaea with one fusillade.
You'd think they were greeting an arriving Imperial, Lydia thought sardonically. Oh, that's right, the Empress Hecuba returns from
