Signy Mallory

 Written by Mercedes Lackey and Leslie Fish
Vocals, Guitar and Bodhran by Heather Alexander

This song is based on Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh

She's the captain of the Norway
And a thorn in Union's side
Protector of Pell station
And a source of grudging pride

Left the Mazianni with a price upon her head
And stayed to guard the stations that the company left for dead

They say she doesn't think about
The lives that she has lost
They say when Norway goes to fight
She doesn't count the cost

That once she's planned a course, she never recons wrong or right
So why does she stare sleeplessly into the dark of night

Chorus:
Captain Signy Mallory has no soul they say
The captain of the Norway has a heart of frozen clay
That on the bridge of the Norway
She throws men's lives like dice
Captain Signy Mallory, her eyes are fire and ice

They say the Norway's captain disciplines with an iron whip
That it's worth your life to break her rules in dock or off the ship
That no one sane serves under her command but if that's so
Then why do her troops cheer her when she passes them below

They say the captain has no crude emotions to control
Just an iron fist, an iron will and an iron-banded soul
They say she shows no mercy they say she never can
So why is Norway refuge for a burned out Union man

[Chorus]

She's the captain of the Norway
And a thorn in Union's side
The Mazianni fear her
She's the heart of Norway's pride

And stationer or merchanter from Fargone back to Pell
Know for Mallory all Norway would fight demons out of hell

[Chorus]
Captain Signy Mallory, her eyes are fire and ice