She seemed astonished by how many the priest guy, Kan, had holed up in his temple. Seemed as if the people here had been getting royally screwed by those in authority. Again. Most of First World’s youngling planets were quite advanced and fair to their people. Earth and Dronish seemed to be the worst of the lot. I knew that many of the negative traits of these worlds had been accelerated after the release of the Seventine. The balance had been thrown off. The mineraline crystals were lit up – fully charged for the first time in years – and I could feel the energy bleeding off them. With help from thousands of uninjured Drones, they were distributed around. I watched in fascination as the injured opened their mouths and those snake-like protrusions emerged. The mouth ends would attach to the stone and then energy infused into the host. Burns disappeared, cracked skin smoothed out, lifeless muscle sprang to life, filling out the almost non-existent frames. As the oils sloshed across the skin, their eye morphed from this sickly yellow to a blood-red.
