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Fan's Path to Adulthood, a Year or So Earlier
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
—William Shakespeare
Fan had been working her way through an economics module of the Accel educational framework on her tablet, trying to catch up on her schoolwork. Being a Board member of Oceanic Mining Unlimited, she was discovering, really ate into her learning time. The news of Sky Rubola arrived in the form of Lenora rushing into her office without knocking. “You need to come with me to the Command Information Center.”
Fan’s first reaction was to refuse the demand. She was, after all, a daughter of the Politburo—born to make demands, not acquiesce to them.
But Lenora’s urgency bordered on panic, and besides, she’d almost never invited Fan into t
