A Stitch in Time? Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman EDIT: Seeing Keith's post below, I should add, Garak Re: Paladine.
Yep, it was the very first sentence of the book actually. It was Vaughn thinking about Prynn as he watched her getting blasted out of her chair during the battle at the beginning of the book. Guess it wasn't as easy as I thought.
Damn, this means I have to dig out a quote now, doesn't it? Give me a few minutes... Edit: Here we go. "For a long moment, no words were spoken. And then she said simply, 'One for the road?' I smiled and accommodated her. It seemed only polite."
^ It was a memorable line. I knew instantly as soon as I read it that it had to be Vaughn. Because Lesser Evil had the Ruriko flashbacks, I jumped to that first. Sometimes even my encyclopedic mind fails me....
Okay, then, here we go..... "You will expand your current habitat. You will harden the landing field to receive ore transports, and you will keep yourselves fit so you can work. "You will work, or you will die."