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B a t t l e B C a o t r BETRAYAL t p l s OF IDEALS e Book I: Foundations of Fate C o r Blaine Lee Pardoe p s B Foundations of Fate • Page  a The Great Hall t Strana Mechty Clan Space t 12 June 2822 l Khan Sarah McEvedywalked around the construction site, care- e fully eyeing the work in progress. The Great Hall’s cornerstone had been laid long ago, but progress had been slow, not due to B C motivation or desire, but in the detail of the craftsmanship. The stones for this structure, the seat of government for the Clans, were a o carved individually by hand on each one of the Pentagon worlds, then shipped to Strana Mechty. An equal number of stones from t each world were to be employed in the grand structure. As she r watched the stonemasons work, she wondered if she would ever see the completion of the structure. t p As a team of men hoisted a block of marble up with a block and l tackle, she surveyed the form of the building. Yes, it was to be a s wondrous hall, a monument to the Clans and Nicholas Kerensky, e the ilKhan, but at the same time it was to appear austere and even plain. How they would ever balance that mix was beyond her. C She chuckled to herself. If nothing else, it was a monument to the Clans themselves. The constant struggle to mix the ways of o the past and the ways of Nicholas’s vision of the future…a vision that seemed to constantly evolve and change. Andery understood r that. Adjusting her uniform jacket against the chill of the eve