“Eldralyl’s been gone a while, Pyre. You sure this meeting didn’t upset your mother?”

”Zeilem, of course it would have, you could have destroyed our relationship with the dwarves! Even by goblin standards that was a stupid move! THANKFULLY she is on one of her flights right now, otherwise, you would have lost ANOTHER eye.”

Even just recalling Zels stupidity made Pyres blood boil. It took everything in him not to claw him for his recklessness.

she wont know untill she gets back, but i can at least minimize the fallout. Pyre thought

”how was I supposed to know the X.I.G.A.M. Project was still a secret from the public!” Zel exclaimed.

“You READ. THE. SECURITY. UPDATES.” Pyre ranted, slamming his talons down on the tactile holographic interface in front of him “Now we have to worry about pirates getting a jump drive! That would be a disaster, just like in the old wars! Aeora was destroyed by such a device, and you basically just announced and upgraded version? Thank the old gods that everyones public opinion of you is as a liar, or we could have already have been raided!”

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Staring at the best technician and programmer in the company, all Pyre could do was sigh disappointedly.

“We both know this argument is going nowhere,” Pyre mumbled “so im going to increase security and you just keep programming the flight path to XIGAM, no one else in or out of the hangar until mother returns.”

”yes sir” Zel mumbled.

”What was that?”

Before he could get a reply, Zel smirked and powered down his interface, leaving Pyre confused, and irritated.

that guy is gonna get himself killed one day. Pyre thought, turning around and gazing out the window, hovercars and low atmosphere shuttles racing by.

running his hands over his four horns and through his ginger hair, he wondered how does mother do this everyday?