Aboard the rebel frigate Solidarity, which had just embarked on a roundabout route back to the Rebel Headquarters on the planet of Pyrs, the medical staff came to much the same conclusion as Holly with regard to the rescued boy. Only minor physical injuries, though the universe alone knew what had happened to his mind. Holly watched through an observation window, as the medics examined him, poking and prodding and really doing no good at all. Though at least, they had mercifully taken off his bloody clothing.
“The boy’s all there is?” a voice asked at her shoulder.
Holly turned around and found herself face to face with Arthur Madden, the great rebel leader himself. It was the first time she saw the great man in the flesh, though she’d seen his propaganda broadcasts, of course. But then
