Salute To The General

Chapter 2070



"May I ask if you are well acquainted with Nathan Cross?" Clifford asked.

"What is your interest in this?" Nathan inquired in kind.

"I understand that you have sought Nathan for his input on military strategy during the North Army's battle against the Xyperian army, and also presented him a gift recently. That made me curious about the nature of your relationship with him."

Nathan's answer was ambiguous. "I consider him a friend."

The term itself could mean a relationship of any indeterminate depth.

His counterpart furrowed, as that did not actually reveal anything of substance.

Nathan then countered with a question of his own. "I heard that your family and Nathan have their differences."

"Not differences, but a profound enmity," Clifford corrected.

"An eye for an eye makes the world go blind. If both parties are willing, may I suggest that I play peacemaker. Let bygones be bygones, and the two parties try to get along from here on. What would you say to that?"

Chief Military Governor

a mild man, Clifford tended to side with his relatives and was rather vindictive. In

vendetta was with the bigger picture in mind. He did not

of covertly giving the

they would technically be saving

that was

his ways, even the office of the Chief

his head.

The Daviers and my ex-wife's family, the Goldsteins,

man. Ask

Military Governor, and I shall gladly oblige. It is just this

Nathan Cross, I must ask that you do not interfere. Hold the middle ground and do not take sides. We will resolve this ourselves,

you have your mind made up, Mr. Davier. I shall leave it at that,"

that this was an agreement on the Chief Military Governor's part to remain neutral in

idea that Nathan was sniggering

aside our differences and put

I shall show you

next agenda. "And may we know if you have come