Transcription: Ashes of Victory by David Webber Chapter 1 Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington stood in the gallery of E.S.N. Farnus's boat bay and tried not to reel as the silent emotional hurricane thundered around her. She gazed through the armorplast of the gallery bulkhead into the brilliantly lit, perfect clarity of the bay itself, and tried to use its sterile serenity as a sort of mental shield against the tempest. It didn't help a great deal, but at least she didn't have to face it alone, and she felt the living side of her mouth quirk in a wry smile as the six-linned tree cat in the carrier on her bac ...
