No matter what came from this test Neysor knew he was to be damned by his brothers for breaking their laws, laws that he had helped to write. He knew the consequences would be dire, but the commander did not care about things he knew of, it was the unknown that terrified him. The unknown of what was happening to his beloved in that room made him uneasy, he could trust everyone on this ship, he had known them since before he was given the Yuik, over a thousand years he’d come to know every name and every detail of every single Gralari woman on this ship, they were all worthy of respect and trust. He had reaffirmed his trust in his crew and the doctor a dozen times but it did nothing to relax the tightness building in his gut. For a moment he remembered his brothers, how they had played when they were still young in the fields of Ju-il where he was born. Over a fifteen hundred years had passed since then, the fire rains that burned his planet had come, the giant black-scaled creatures that were the Darilles along with it.
