The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 31

Chapter 31

Chapter 31

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"Ahem... Raven, listen, Brigadier General Grayson's getting old, and, uh, he's not all there anymore. I'll say sorry for him," Lorne said, rubbing the back of his neck with an awkward grin.

Then he even added. "And to make it real clear I'm totally against that stupid idea he had, I'm giving you a promotion."

"As of today, you're the military's fourth general!" he announced, his voice loud and firm.

The place burst into chatters.

The moment Lorne's words landed, it was like a shockwave hit everyone right in the head.

For a second, they thought they'd heard wrong.

The fourth general? Their minds buzzed with disbelief.

Vyrdenia's three current full-on generals were legends-people who'd fought hard

and spilled blood for the country's pride.

And in all of Vyrdenia's history, no one had ever made general before fifty.

But here was Lorne, handing the title to a girl barely past her teens.

He wasn't kidding-he was really doing this.

Next to Raven, Eddie just gaped at her, his jaw hanging loose.

He'd come from Regalhold to "lend a hand," full of himself and ready to play hero.

He'd thought he was the hotshot riding in to save the day-that's how he pictured it.

Yeah, Valhalla master, lieutenant general, whatever, he'd sucked it up and dealt with it.

But now they' were saying she was shooting up to a general rank he could only dream of? His head couldn't handle it.

Someone like that needing his help-he almost cracked up at the thought.

And since he got here, he hadn't done a thing.

the start, telling Raven to run,

top dog among his buddies,

he felt tiny.

he-a

walking into this, he'd have told his grandpa

been scheming about calling her lieutenant

seen the badge Raven tossed in Rex's face earlier-assumed Raven was

saying Raven was a general,

military general, just the four

someone the Jennings family would throw a whole welcome bash for- big dinner,

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Raven off as some nobody from a nowhere town. The ridiculousness of it

at how she'd acted,

Yet now, she realized she'd played herself-she let out a quiet

out of his daze,

hit him like a

bumping Raven down to colonel, and Lorne shot back by

was a straight-up insult, and he stewed

plank, Rex turned and glared at Raven, his resentment

was already too much, as far as

top tier at that age? He couldn't

position he'd never even let himself imagine, and it

let her take that

a lieutenant general, she could still drop to

she locked in that top rank, unless she pulled some treason-level stunt or

earlier threat. Throwing all caution out the window, he leaned forward, his face dead serious, and

rushed out, words tumbling over each other before Lorne could shut him down. "Look, every general

girl in that role, they'll think our military's a

stared him down, his sharp eyes boring into

just annoyed-it was past

he could, Lorne would've stitched Rex's big mouth shut, hacked him up, and

all lined up. He'd

toast, and Lorne

no, that was

his third go at asking

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