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Hamal wasn’t embarrassed to admit his excitement.
They’d been called out for a real mission. It wasn’t often that Soldiers, whose Masters maintained a tenuous truce, received an assignment that wasn’t just some elaborate exercise. That Hamal was on the team called was doubly exciting. He was so new, he shouldn’t have been assigned to a mission for decades.
“Wow, man, you really are, like, the golden child.”
Hamal wasn’t sure what Daniel’s comment meant but was in too good a mood to let it bring him down.
Now on the ground, two layovers from their original destination, their exhaustion from travel was held at bay by their excitement. The details of their mission would be explained in short order. That they’d arrived at Zibanitu’s primary residence made it more exciting. According to
