by A. B. Keuser
"You will work with the Commander's mother."
She didn't respond, they already knew she would, the orders were unnecessary.
"We trust her and the women who helped you before. The others we are not yet certain of."
"I wouldn't ask you to be. It's not like I know many of them."
"KaDen has given his assurances."
He did not look happy about having done so.
"There is a chamber. We call it Oreani"
She knew its location and purpose the moment KaLea said its name. The kindiran had stopped carrying their fetuses to term centuries ago, transferring them to a honeycombed structure for the duration of gestation. "That should make things easier."
When she'd heard the prophecy in their minds, she'd assumed the bit about "born of no mother" had been an oddity of translation. And she was right, Oreani had no direct translation... other than mother.
"I'll work with Pakovik to be sure that no damage comes to it, or the future generations."
They let her go and she ignored the feathery touches of their consciousness... the thanks that flowed over her, unspoken, but no less potent.
When she came out, she drew in a too-long breath.
“I was wrong earlier. It’s not over.”
“I know, the ships told me. It’s an interesting and exciting new beginning.” Wrapping an arm around him, Kenzie leaned her head on his chest. “I don’t think that’s such a bad thing.”
Letting out a long breath, and looking at his strangely alien hand, Cable nodded.
He laughed, the sound somewhere between disbelief and irony. “You’re in charge now.”
With a grimace, she turned him toward the door. “I know. How weird is that?”
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Books by A. B. Keuser
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Death of Empire
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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