A white walrus appeared in a blue vest and top hat and wailed at a small alien! Oh, Wally, he’s a Councillor. This goblin-looking green fella did metallic screeching at him. He backed away, too! Looked at an overweight Black lady with his huge purple eyes. “This is your fault! Earthans are not supposed to interfere in matters of the Councils! You are primitives and do not know what is involved! This man should leave our level!”
The green fella hugged the Black older lady and cried! “I won’t leave them to die! No! I will fight Rentappenen. All of you are fighting. I will prove my loyalty by fighting with you!”
That walrus waddled closer. “I don’t believe you! Your people pretended loyalty, then gave the Jain weapons they were not ready to have. They destroyed themselves—” Jain, like that place Luc’vel went to and thought he was just finding animals and plants? Even the food was weapons, Pirad said.
“Eriganh forced us to work for Rentappenen. We gave them weapons because Eriganh told us to make weapons for them. Eriganh said we were born for masters. Rentappenen said we were slaves for masters. This lady is the first to tell me I can be free, I can choose!” He pointed to the older Black lady with a gnarled finger. “I choose to help your new Council.” She smiled.
“Your help is fatal! We can die without you.” Wally held his nose up.
Dromie hopped off the bed where the lady was and looked up at him. “We can all live, with my help. My people’s weapons are in every place Eriganh’s and Rentappenen’s men live. All I need to do is change them, because they are alive.”
“If you make them live, how do we know if they will help us, or interfere with Eriganh’s battle? There can be no interference with that! You must wait! You can’t go to Alb. Rentappenen will find you and destroy us all!”
“Then, take me with you to the 6th—”
“You think they want you there? No Council will accept you. Your only option is to leave.”
“Good!” A young Black lady came to the bed holding a little girl.
“Dromie! Granny, you kept him safe for me!” She held out her arms, but Mom snatched her away.
“That thing bit me! I’m not goin’ near it! Granny, they have a Black city on MarKu! Imagine, an entire city full of Black people like us! All our lives, we been tryin’ to live a white life! Now we can get in touch with our culture!” The sun sank in the sky as I watched. Huh?
Pas put them on the bed. He sang something pretty and the gash on her brown skin healed up.
“I can do better than that!” Dromie grabbed her hand and her arm cracked! The younger lady tried to jerk it away, but her arm was crooked. Now it’s straight.
That walrus moaned. “You’ll bring Rentappenen—”
Pas waved, and white aandats fell on their ankles. “This is an aandat. Once it places itself, you will be healthier. Most Earthans have immunity from all diseases, you heal faster from injuries, and gain telepathy.” Why didn’t he ask?
“May I have one?” Dromie blinked his huge blue eyes at him.
“Ea.” He waved a twin-fingered hand and one also dropped on his 3-toed feet.
It zipped up his shorts, and he giggled. “Oh, it’s fast!”
The healer lost his smile. “Are you unwell, my son?”
That walrus frowned! “Do not think to heal him, Pas! You would die to touch his mind! Would you try to heal a Kajarian? He is like 20,000 of them!”
Pas gasped and rolled his twin fingers up. “Can you heal him?”
“I could, but I will not! He can destroy the 13, with a thought!”
Thirteen galaxies. With a thought?!
“Well, what if I think to bring back all the galaxies my people destroyed?”
“You can’t do that until Adia fights Eriganh!”
“Look there!” Dromie pointed to the big picture window in the lobby.
I blinked, and our table was full.
“Molly, are you okay?” Doug held my hand.
Suddenly, I was back on Adia’s Ship!
Kia’s thoughts echoed in my mind!
Through Ranh Wenh Cet, I see his slave lords. I zapped all of them who willingly helped him. I can tell! I can hear intentions! Sara’s directing me, Sara who married Cevit Ion! He’s Seventh Galaxy Minister, and he’s helping me, too!
Kia came out of a bedroom with Irdatkin, a Biehshah diplomat with mauve skin. Biehshah look like us but we can’t heal ‘em. Kia’s Earthan and somehow, she can! She ran straight for the Emperor, even though most of the people on Adia’s Ship didn’t see him.
Ry’nao staggered into the main room of our red-violet ship. Fell into Ryonne~’s arms! Didn’t I already see this?
Kia put a hand on his 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.
Ket, his Elshar healer, gasped and put both his hands on Ry’nao’s head! “You can’t fight Rentappenen! Pull out!”
Galactic ministers gathered around him as he sank to his knees. Ket put him on his lap. Wept.
“Get Ray,” he whispered.
I ran to them! Cev pulled my hands on his gray curls.
“Ray!” Ry’nao reached towards their room and Ray and Asha, her trader husband came running!
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He’s cold. A Xchou should be warm as me.
Deb ran out here! She can find Ty’nirrhan minds because she’s linked with Greg! Deb added her hands.
“Ket! No—Suma!” His fire-engine red skin went white! Suma, whose now self is on Soskanna while Ni’olmai negotiates with the Imwa—that’s the walrus people?
I heard Suma’s screams! Suma and Ni fell out of the ceiling! Onto Jen and Doug’s bed. They bounced! Ishmarel and several diplomats ran in there. Caught them on the second bounce. Ni wasn’t moving. Healers ran in there. Alice stood out here in the main part of Adia’s ship looking confused. She doesn’t see us?
Azure appeared by them. Her red braids are flying, like a whirlwind around her! Yellow sparkles are dropping like rain off her!
“Suma—” a whimper. He looked towards Jen and Doug’s room and Suma got up.
A walrus? And a horde of surprised Thordes appeared! They felt it and stood ready to add their telepathy.
The giant white walrus shouted,“What are you waiting for, Christmas? Attack Rentappenen!” Yellow light surrounded us and I felt a lot stronger!
Suma got up and ran to that walrus! Yellow light got brighter all around us. What?
Kia’s mind! I keep attacking and more replace all I felled! I sweated.
“You’ll kill Ry’nao!” Mike, Thordes Healer, put his hands on Ry’nao’s head, too. He came with them. Held him up by his shoulders! We’re losing! Mica’s with him, his wife. She got ready to attack, but no one here looked threatening. Most people on the ship acted like nothing was happening. They didn’t see hundreds of Thordes? Most weren’t in DS uniforms!
I heard another voice. Saw the Milky Way from space, from the inside of a deep blue portal.
Another portal shot towards them! Snafanas grabbed Ilios by the throat. “I’ll kill you!” If we fall out of this portal, we’re dead in space!
Ry’nao’s mind grabbed his.
Suddenly, Ilios screamed for help down the Diplomatic Link. “Help us! If Rentappenen takes over Ry’nao, thirteen galaxies will be in his control!”
Who’s this? Iona, who rescued Ilios in that other future! They’re porting to Alb! She did it! She rescued Ry’nao’s son!
Ilios saw others, and attacked them. Realized that all the worlds of Zbbat and Esteerrians were helping us fight! They were healing people fighting on our side! We fried a lot of them who were still slavers. Helped operatives on their ships to take over. Go To Alb. We chanted it like a mantra!
Ry’nao felt panicked, trying to coordinate every diplomat he has! On Rhaech, weary Kenneph, Master Diplomat Of MarKu, heard this in his Diplomatic Link. He’s in a meeting with the Ulukai Council, made up of leaders of the 50 worlds. Meeting to hear his arguments about the Nutrition Treaty. Wondering where Moeh and Dachsah, the two main leaders of half of Rhaech, are. They’re here!. I showed Andrisch where they were and he ported them on Adia’s Ship. White Robe gave them quick justice.
He showed Perach and Janmie, the two Ulukai leaders, that they now had control of Rhaech, and the other half of the worlds!
Janmie stood. “Ah, here is the rest of my Council, released from our prison!” Guards helped them walk in and take their seats. They saw the treaty and smiled. “Moeh and Dachsah imprisoned them when they supported the treaty. “It is time we signed it! Ronda, you helped us. Now, we have agreement and will sign. You must also sign!” That’s Ronda, not a clone of her. All of them shook their heads for an Elshar yes.
Kenneph used the ceremonial chalk and gave a long speech as he drew complicated symbols. They signed, all of them. With the signature, they activated the new Hub and new progs. They couldn’t make a clone who turned out? She gave a database of Zheien healing to the Ulukai. Convinced them to change their false healing that injured people!
I showed them Rentappenen and where his Collective is. On Rhaech?
Ulukai mounted beasts and their armies ported to Rhaech in great numbers! They ran down into tunnels long unused from mines and found the chamber. Fought with guards.
What can I do? I saw a weak spot. They’re trying to get into Rhaech’s info storage. Saw how to disable Rentappenen’s traps and they went!
Azure appeared. “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!”
Heard her voice in the Link. “We can’t get down there!” They’re on Lisbaar. Weapons are stored there in a facility deep underground.
I followed it. Big guards with Ty’nirrhan telepathy-- “Deb!”
She came running, and Deb took over their bodies while she directed their telepathy down to Rentappenen! Gierdre ran down there and found the right pile of red slime. An aandat with Gedda Dier’s intelligence. Immediately, she came to life. “We are being attacked! Now! Against Rentappenen!” They got everyone to run down into the biomes and let the slime wake Gedda Dier’s army!
This world develops weapons against Eriganh and Rentappenen!
We’re too early! The Final Battle takes place on the 31st, and it has to happen first! I showed Azure. That Goblin smiled. He took us back to the 19th? Wait a minute.