Rajani Chronicles II by Brian S. Converse

Author:Brian S. Converse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction book, fiction author, fiction ebook, fiction epic, fiction sci fi
Publisher: Brian S. Converse

Chapter 11

James had grown a beard in his time away from Earth. It was difficult to find a shaving implement in a society where no one shaved. His was salt-and-pepper in color, and it made him look ten years older, he knew. Not to mention Yvette had hated it back on the ship. She’d actually offered to shave it by using her powers, but the thought of it had not appealed to him in the least. Best not to think about her now, he told himself, looking in the mirror that Mazal had found for him, weeks before. It still surprised him when he woke up in the morning and looked in the mirror to see the beard.

There had still been no word from Yvette since the Tukuli crashed. He’d almost be inclined to let her try to shave him if he could just see her again. And if something had happened to her, what then? It had been a long time since he was in any sort of meaningful relationship with a woman. Jenny would always be there in his mind and his heart, there was no way it could be different, but he had truly started to care about Yvette. He wasn’t sure he was ready to think about the “L” word, though. It was different, certainly, but there was nothing wrong with that. He wasn’t the lovesick pup trying to be a man at too young an age anymore. He knew, though, that losing Yvette would hurt, and so he did everything he could not to think about her, which, of course, meant that he spent most of his downtime doing exactly that.

Not that he’d had a lot of extra time to think about anything else lately. He was still attempting to grasp the Krahns’ strategies. He had no intelligence on how they fought and how to counteract them. Everything right now was guerrilla warfare; hit them and withdraw. But he also knew that this type of insurgency could last for years without coming to any type of closure. He needed to come up with a better plan with a definite end in sight, and preferably with that end coming soon, for the sake of all of them.

One problem he faced was that he didn’t know how many Krahn were still on the colony ship. He knew there was a finite number of Krahn overall, but didn’t know how many were on Rajan and how many were off-planet. He didn’t even know how fast they could deploy from space if they called in reinforcements. He’d seen Krahn ships flying over Melaanse, and could tell that it wasn’t just the same one over and over again. He had asked the three species to write down details of each ship they saw so that they could start to get an idea of how many there were, but he knew it would be slow going. Luckily, from the ships that he had seen so far, he had learned that the

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