HAINN: A Badari Warriors SciFi Romance Novel (Sectors New Allies Series Book 19) by Veronica Scott

Author:Veronica Scott [Scott, Veronica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jean D.\Walker
Published: 2025-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

The feast in the evening was a revelation to Jezari. There was a huge bonfire built from driftwood, a firepit to cook certain of the creatures hunted for this dinner, as well as a big pot of water brought to a boil to steam mollusks like the ones she’d gathered. Badari didn’t indulge in alcoholic beverages, although Vindy had brought one or two for herself. Instead they drank a blended fruit juice concoction that packed a punch. Hainn began the evening with a prayer to the goddess, thanking her for the sea’s bounty and the singing of a paean, which he told her later came from the ancestral memory and their ancestors had sung it after successful fishing expeditions. There was much hilarity and telling of old stories from their previous life in the South Seas. Jezari had nothing to compare it to in her own past. She’d grown up in an austere lab on a mountaintop and while there’d been the occasional festive but decorous dinner to celebrate milestones which she and her sisters later learned were nothing more than ruses to bring each Daughter chosen for the life sucking pod into a tranquil state. Her food on the night of her ‘party’ had been drugged with special compounds designed to hook into her DNA and render her incapable of defending herself.

This rowdy nighttime affair didn’t remind her in the least of the phony and stressful event at the lab. This was fun and free spirited and genuine. She sat in the circle of brothers next to Hainn and thoroughly enjoyed the food, the drink and the company.

The best part in her mind came late in the evening when a drum was brought out by Stonor and the other Badari lined up in a clear stretch of sand and danced. Hainn sang to the beat Stonor pounded out and the other men chanted the choruses. The performance was fierce, with many strong movements and the warriors moved with their fangs and talons on full display.

It’s a mix, Hainn had told her right before they began, of ancestral memory of similar dances from the original Badari ancestors, to prepare themselves for war or for a big hunt and movements our own earlier Generations here had worked out to express their determination to survive and triumph over the Khagrish.

Technically Vindy shouldn’t have been allowed to watch the ceremony as humans weren’t invited to view Badari rituals and secrets but since she was their pilot she got a dispensation. She sat nursing her feelgood and clapping along with the drumbeat.

All Jezari knew was the music and the dancing got her own blood surging. She was caught up in the emotions and when Hainn held out his hand to her she jumped up to join the line and pound out a final dance with them. She could easily imagine herself back in time, dancing with the Badari ancestors, long before the Khagrish arrived to sow terror and death. She gave herself up to the hypnotic dance and camaraderie.

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