KHESAT CHAKA HAD been sitting for three days now in the small room in the house of Caridal Fere. When she got tired, which was seldom, she rested, but always there were recordings for her to translate if she could, of what had been said by and around the two boys. Faral and Jens spoke together v...
Nyls Jessan, in the pilot’s seat, glanced across at his current partner. The dark, wiry man whom Beka had called Ignac’ LeSoit was a pro, all right; he didn’t blush or flinch under Jessan’s frankly suspicious gaze. The corners of LeSoit’s mouth, however, were tight, and his eyes were clouded. Jes...
Maraganha said; and Arekhon replied, “It isn’t. But the money I’ve saved here on Entibor isn’t going to do me any good back on Eraasi.” “Don’t spend all of it,” she told him. “You never know what may happen.” In Tifset, they spent several hours going through the paper archives—raw data, unscanned...
DARVELL: NORTHERN HEMISPHERE HIGH OVER the Darvelline system, so high that the central star and all its planets were only brighter spots against the backdrop of the galaxy, the substance of realspace altered for a second as Warhammer popped out of hyper. “There it is,” Beka said, regarding the s...
GYFFER: TELABRYK LOCAL DEFENSE BASE; SPACE FORCE HQ BUILDING SUIVI POINT: ADMNISTRATIVE DISTRICT RSF KARIPAVO: MAGEWORLDS SPACE THE GYFFERAN Local Defense Force was one of the handful of planetary fleets that hadn’t merged into the Space Force at the end of the First Magewar. That independence h...
GALCENIAN DATING 976 A.F. ENTIBORAN REGNAL YEAR 3 PERADA HAVE YOU found what you’re looking for?” Mistress Vasari couldn’t keep the relief out of her voice. She and Errec Ransome had been walking in the rain and mist for some hours, ever since leaving the gate at the landing field. She wasn’t l...
R. BEYOND THE FARTHER EDGE: UNKNOWN ENTIBORAN SHIP SUS-PELEDAEN SHIP RAIN-ON-DARK-WATER ILDAON: COUNTRY HOUSE OF ELEK GRIAT Elaeli watched the instrument console on the bridge of the Entiboran ship and wished she knew what it was telling her. The console had a varied array of lights and switches...