>"Belay!" Edwards snapped. Then, a cold smile touching his thin lips,
>he said, "Ready the tractor beam. I want them brought aboard alive.
>Sterling's woman wants to go out fighting. It will satisfy me
>enormously to watch her die on her knees."

And now you see that good will always win, because evil likes to gloat way too much for its own good.

>"Ah, lovely Miria," Edwards hissed, then snapped in a more normal
>voice of command, "Bring her to me, Katrice."

That's, like, one or two places after "I am invincible!" on the list of Famous Last Words.

>Von Fahrvergnügen watched the stars on the forward display smear and
>explode into the ship's wake and smiled once more. Then, with a final
>nod to Breetai and the Sterlings, he turned and swept from the room -
>just as he always did, only on a larger scale.

Nifty.