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?"

was now Chief Military Governor and Eurasia's undisputed top

man, Clifford tended to side with his relatives and was rather vindictive. In his role as

was with the bigger picture in mind. He did not

it was also his way of covertly giving the Daviers a way to bow out

back off Nathan, they would

pity that that was

was so set in his ways, even the office of the Chief Military

his head. "No

Daviers and my ex-wife's

that man. Ask

It is just this one thing that I cannot

“As this is strictly between the Daviers and Nathan Cross, I must ask that you do not interfere. Hold the middle ground and do not

your mind made up, Mr. Davier. I

assumed then that this was an agreement on the

that Nathan was

set aside our differences and put our national interests first. But since

I

may we know if you have come to a