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    HALF COCKED – BACKWOODS STATION     “Sterling, you want to come on in here?” Shit, he wondered. What the hell did I do now? He ignored Madge from the desk by the door, her sniff of disdain and displeasure bouncing off the only wooden walls in Backwoods Station. His worn boots made clip clopping sounds as he marched along the plank flooring like a man headed to an ass chewing. “Know what I did?” he whispered out of the side of his mouth to Dominique at her simple board desk. She pursed her beautiful full lips and shook her head, eyes glinting with a hint of mischief. “I have no idea,” she practically purred. “You’re taking too much pleasure in this,” he kept walking. “Don’t I know it,” she kept her voice low as she called after him. In a normal Galactic Marshal office, the Chief Marshal has a separate office partitioned off by soundproof glass, so that during said ass chewing’s, others in the office could watch but not hear. In Pete’s case, the continued

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  PENNY WISE           "Penelope Wise?"      "Present," said a small voice in the front row, near the corner of the crowded classroom.      "Hello Penny," said Ms. Randolph.   Her face was pleasant, like a favorite aunt who knew more than one family secret.      "You're reputation precedes you."      "Thank you," Penny said meekly, sqautting lower in her desk and wishing for all of the world that a hole would rip open in the fabric of the universe and steal her away.   She could feel the eyes of the other students boring into her, some glaring with knowledge, some under raised eyebrows, curious.      She wasn't new to the school, wasn’t a new face to most of the students in the room.   But Penny spent as much time as she could trying to be inconspicuios.   She didn't want to be seen, or heard, or even known about.   She didn't want a reputation preceding her.      "I'm glad that you're in my