Through him, I saw his slave lords. I zapped all of them who willingly helped him. I can tell! I can hear intentions!

Ry’nao ran to me and put a hand on my head. I was scared he’d get hurt but novas! His telepathy’s a lot stronger than mine! He saw all the people I zapped, and he got their memories. Saw their plans.

An Elshar healer gasped and put both his hands on Ry’nao’s head! “You can’t fight Rentappenen! Pull out!”

“Get Ray,” he whispered.

Ray ported in and put her hands on his head.

“Suma—” a whimper.

I kept attacking and there were more to replace all that I felled! I sweated.

Suma and a walrus? And a horde of surprised Thordes appeared! They felt it and stood ready to add their telepathy.

“What are you waiting for, Christmas? Attack Rentappenen!” The giant white walrus was shouting!

“You’ll kill Ry’nao!” A Thordes I knew in Rainbow, Mike, put his hands on Ry’nao’s head, too. Then held him up by his shoulders! We’re losing!

But, a girl with red pigtails appeared. Who’s she? “What can we do, Jarfus? I can pick an earlier time, but so can Rentappenen! Suma, heal them! Jarfus, protect Suma! We need—I know—Gedda Dier has a Cube! Wake her up, Gierdre!”

I heard a voice in the Link. “We can’t get down there!”

I followed it. Big guards with Ty’nirrhan telepathy— “Deb!”

She came running and I took over their bodies while she directed their telepathy down to Rentappenen! Gierdre ran down there and found the right pile of slime. An aandat with Gedda Dier’s intelligence. Immediately, she came to life. “We are being attacked! Now! Against Rentappenen!” But her armies weren’t there. This world is Elshars, mostly. But they got everyone to run down into the biomes and let the slime wake Gedda Dier’s army!

On Rhaech, weary Kenneph heard this in his Diplomatic Link. He was in a meeting with the Ulukai Council, made up of leaders of the 50 worlds. They were meeting to hear his arguments about the Nutrition Treaty. Wondering where Moeh and Dachsah, the two main leaders of half of Rhaech, were. They are here, on Earth. I showed Andrisch where they were and he ported them on the ship. White Robe gave them quick justice.

He showed Perach and Janmie, the two Ulukai leaders, that they now had control of all of Rhaech, and the other half of the worlds. “It is time we signed this treaty! Ronda, you helped us. Now, we have agreement and will sign.”

Kenneph used the ceremonial chalk, and gave a long speech as he drew complicated symbols. They signed, all of them.

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But, I showed them Rentappenen and where his Collective is. On Rhaech?

Ulukai mounted beasts of every description and their armies ported to Rhaech. With the signature, they activated the new Hub and new progs. More armies came. They ran down into tunnels long unused from mines and found the chamber. Fought with guards.

Rentappenen lost men like water, but more came to replace ‘em.

I reached, and kept reaching. Ray knew places I could reach. So did Suma. And, this girl, Azure, directed us all! Rentappenen is using all his strength up.

But, the timing is wrong! Ray’s supposed to defeat him after Adia defeats Eriganh!

And, the date changed. January 31. The Unified Treaty’s been signed. Adia feels uneasy. She and Ryee and Laura go for a walk. That yard I could see from the ship!

Eriganh is waiting. Adia raises the White Cube. Ryee helps her but Eriganh attacks her. Not yet.

Ry’nao is losing strength, but he smiled. He knows.

Suddenly, Eriganh panics and loses his hold on the Red Cube! It smashes into the White Cube, that also flies from Adia’s hand. Diplomats, traders, scientists, they are all plastered to that side of the ship, watching the 300 year war come to an end, in the yard of a nurse, Laura Martin. She’s holding Ryee.

The fireworks are over. Ray takes the Red Cube. Adia’s clone takes the White Cube Of Light. It’s spent, but everyone left in it, they are targeting Rentappenen.

The Red Cube is spent, but its Collective wants to fight Rentappenen, too.

They’re bringing Adia and Ryee in. They put Adia and Ryee on a bed and Ry’nao is holding Ryee, but he’s here, in the middle of this ship, we’re frozen in time, Azure’s stretching out time so we can do this! I sang louder. Orchestration built so thirteen galaxies heard the music! Sang with it. Telepathy of worlds too numerous to imagine, not in my little mind!

Slowly, the other hosts of the weaker Cubes rise up. The Time Is Now!

I sang. Orchestration built. I healed members of all these weary Collectives! Suma’s healing heals all of most of the species, but I healed the Bisillips, the Biehshah, the Hidden Elders of Cubes I didn’t know the names of, Rentappenen didn’t know about them!

Deb reached through and sent a final surge of telepathy to get Opseh Wenh Cet’s Collective. He had one? He wasn’t ever supposed to rise to Councillor! That’s Gedda Dier’s Cube! She took it back!

I sang, and the music swirled, and all the dead people of Earth rose and lived. It’s not the Resurrection, oh, no. They’ll live for a time and die again. But, that’s not for me. That’s not my doing.

Civilizations long dead rose again, all over the Thirteen, the damage Eriganh, Satauuver and Rentappenen did, that the Gray Cube that Ry’nao has, it stored them for this day, this time!

We are all existing in two planes of time. There’s Suma and Ray, healing Adia and Ryee, while they are pouring energy through Ry’nao, into this void of time and space, putting our universe back together. My mind can’t hold it all! I sing louder! More healing. The music. It’s more beautiful than I ever imagined, ice cream flavors to children, laughing and playing in time, dancing, all the little Zheien children, but Biehshah, Bisillips—and Aryllan children, their songs are healing.

King Wtensau touches Ray’s mind and he now has the Blue Cube. It wasn’t meant to be, but he has it and he’s using it to touch plants all over the Thirteen. Plants—pin dat shea rise up on every world. Their spores were dormant, but an Earthan, Bess, sings with Perretau, and all the plants rise up to choke the wicked and heal the dead, the injured, the weary so they can rise up and fight Rentappenen. This is it. The Final Battle that no one will see, except for me, Ray, Suma, Deb, and Bess. And, Azure.

She gives her final burst of energy. The music reaches its crescendo and lowers in volume, gradually, softly.

“Azure! Pirad!” Molly grabs Pirad’s arm. He’s hot. “What happened? Ry’nao! What’re you doing out here? Suma? Deb?”

Molly has Azure on her lap. She’s spent, healing Ryee and Adia. None of the healers on this ship have anything left. My music is fading.

I put my head down on the soft red-violet floor. Ir holds me. “Healer. Please. For my love.”

The music stopped. People are around, but I can’t open my eyes. Sleep. Gotta.