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  1. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    The Corps has always believed that the most powerful weapon its people possesses is between their ears.
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  2. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    It'll be okay." Torin pulled the reporter's attention back to her. "We do this for a living." "I are not wanting to die." "Well, I are not intending to.
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  3. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    You know, if you'd say, 'Don't go,' then I could say something like, 'A man has to do what a man has to do,' and leave a hero." "Or there's always that retina on a stick option." "I might have known she'd get all mushy on me,
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  4. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    Which means," he continued, removing his arm and turning to the CSO, "you won't freeze or asphyxiate before they blow you up.
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  5. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    You lot are luckier than you deserve to be, and if you ever again put me in the position where I've got to kiss up to an officer-any officer-to save your sorry butts, I am going to make your lives so goddamned miserable you're going to beg to be dropped into the front lines stark naked and armed with a sponge just to get away from me. Do I make myself clear?
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  6. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    She wants me," he said conversationally to the crewman who'd arrived in time to hear the parting remark. The crewman stared at him for a moment and then burst out laughing.
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  7. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    You are here." Torin would have bet her pension that the graffiti scrawled next to it in a script she didn't recognize said, "And your luggage is in Antares," or a variation thereof.
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  8. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    this situation was tailor-made for that last lesson in Combat Morale, "If you're going to die anyway, see to it that your people die with dry underwear and a smile."
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  9. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    That was opportunity knocking." She shoved the last empty coffee pouch into her pack. "You didn't answer, so it's buggered off to find someone who appreciates it.
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  10. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    Did you pull rank?" "On a chief warrant officer?" They'd reached the link, and he slapped the call button. "Do I look suicidal?
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  11. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    Well?" Shylin fell into step beside him as Sibley came out into the passage. "How long?" "Would you believe eight inches?" "No." "As big as a baby's arm?" "Sib." "Chief says it'll be done when it's done.
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  12. Tanya Huff _ The Better Part of Valor

    You guys only knew him for a week." "No." Torin waited until Ryder had hold of both handles, then she stepped away. "We knew him his whole life.
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