title: The Crossing Over Of Mattie Pearl
author:  Andrea R. Garrison 
description: Andrea R. Garrison is a Video Producer, Entrepreneur, Communications Consultant and Public Speaker. She is the creator of Andrea's Greetings, www.andreasgreetings.com a multi-media greeting card company and the Co- Owner of Greetheart Productions a full service production company. Andrea is committed to her spiritual explorations and studies.
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  # Chapter 17
  
  "Commander, it looks like _Pottawatomie Creek_ is leaving her parking orbit."
  
  Linda Watson turned towards the tactical section at Lieutenant Gohr's report.
  At least the lieutenant came closer to pronouncing the ship's outlandish name
  more or less correctly than most of _Gauntlet_ 's crew managed. That was
  Watson's first thought. Her second was to wonder just where Anton Zilwicki
  might be going.
  
  _Gauntlet_ 's CIC had been keeping an unobtrusive eye on Zilwicki's frigate
  ever since the cruiser's arrival in-system. Not that anyone had asked them to.
  Officially, Ambassador Fraser had taken no notice whatsoever of the small
  warship. Perhaps she felt that if the Queen chose to put a thumb so publicly
  into the High Ridge Government's eye, then it was only tit for tat for her to
  give the back of her hand to Ruth Winton's taxi. Or, more probably, to the
  taxi driver, given how . . . unpopula