Chapter 30
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons
And the flesh of their daughters,
And they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend
In the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies,
And they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
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—Jeremiah 19:9
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ABADDON
General Abaddon caressed the arm of his commander's chair.
"Real space in ten, nine, eight…" his navigation officer counted.
"Check for bogies!" Abaddon pointed at the holographic map. "The moment the Invincible pops in behind us, I want them crawling up the asteroid belt's ass with a microscope."
"Three, two, one…"
The entire ship shuddered with a stomach-lurching sensation. Abaddon counted how many seconds it took for the Jehoshaphat's wounded wing to stop vibrating. The holographic navigation
