Relic Worlds - Lancaster James & the Salient Seed of the Galaxy, Part 1 by Jeff McArthur

Author:Jeff McArthur [McArthur, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bandwagon Books
Published: 2020-12-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Four

The Menagerie

The flora and fauna had filled out to cover much of the greenhouse rooms in which they were grown. Over the course of three years, they had gone from seedlings in unused chambers to thick woods through which a passerby would have to carefully maneuver. Only the metal floor and ceiling reminded a person that they were inside a station floating kilometers above the surface of an inhospitable molten rock.

It had been an adjustment for Princess Rezia Nogotha Tarua Eudosic, Heiress to House Eudosic of the Gerhelm Barony. She had gotten used to the fresh air and warm colored auroras in the skies of Navarus. Though she had been sold into marriage as part of a trade deal in her youth, her life with her husband and daughter had been a good one. Her duties were minimal, even as a parent, and she had large tracts of land on which to appease her green thumb.

Aside from the occasional grumblings of her husband about his work, she did not have to deal with the politics or worry about staying on top and profitable. But she did listen, and after hearing the same names over and over, she had gained an understanding of who the major players were in the galaxy.

Her daughter and son had taken some of her time; usually when they got away from the nannies and educator bots to go to Rezia for attention. It was an amusing distraction, but luckily one that did not take too much of her time before someone came to pull the crying children away. They were both being groomed for positions of leadership, or to be used in trade deals as their mother had been; depending on the needs of the barony and the children's abilities.

Her son Leonodero's abilities lay in command and combat, and he was sent away as a teenager to learn how to lead their great warriors. Unfortunately, he learned to lead from the front, and he died in the next corporate conflict.

Ceriliseta had been blessed with beauty, and the golden hair she had inherited from her mother made her stand out among princesses. Her greatest asset was going to be in connecting with another barony through a relationship. As such, she would be leaving soon.

And so there was no point in Rezia becoming close with her children. She had more of a chance of having a solid relationship with members of the court than she did with either of her offspring.

Then Ceriliseta surprised everyone by taking over the barony, labeling it her empire, sending her father to prison, and banishing her mother. That's gratitude for you.

It had been a period of adjustment; a time of anger and deep resentment. It was not so much the rejection that hurt; her family was more outraged by this, revealed when they had killed the soldiers and pilot who had delivered Rezia. It was the wasted life of more than 20 years. She had played the role of the passive royal wife attending to her social duties and keeping quiet about her opinions and her points of view.

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