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his, a registered message tape arrived. It simply said,
"This is notification that Northern Star is hereby appointed to The Fleet Academy, and will report there twenty days before the beginning of the next session. It is also noted that Northern Star shall be Second Cadet Commander."
Grabbing his mother and spinning around and around, North let out a cry of joy.
"Get our things packed, mother!" he cried. "We're going to Academy City, on Moon Five!"
His mother looked at him with joy.
"If your father could see this," she said, "if he could see the man you've become!"
North did something then, that he had not done in a long time. He kissed his mother's cheek.
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