SeptStar by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward [Ward, Blaze]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-64470-139-3
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

Twenty-Seven

Kathra decided that she might actually like living in this sector of space, given time. The view out her cabin window alternately showed the primary trading station and the blue and green marble below her.

Linga ver’Shingi had carried through on his threat/promise and established a small but promising trade office on the primary station, treating her like a relative by marriage, which was probably about as good as Kaniea society could deal with the comitatus right now.

How soon until other houses decided to offer up their own daughters to possibly join the comitatus? Kathra would not relax her standards for membership, but there was no reason not to let them try. She had always planned to recruit some to expand the Clans, once she felt safe enough from Vorgash and his friends that she could.

No Septagon would be able to come this far, except at the head of an armada so great that other species would eventually record its passing in their own histories.

And she would hopefully have so much warning that she could either flee, or recruit sufficient forces to help.

The Sept were a linear beast, at the end of the day. Vorgash had surprised her and Danial at Tavle Jocia, but they had come hunting her and the Turtle specifically. Presumably they had built some sort of network of forward bases, just to be able to reach that far into Free Worlds space.

Hopefully, someone at Tavle Jocia had drawn a similar conclusion.

To do something similar now would require an enormous effort, since she had gone completely beyond the end of any map she could find in Free Worlds space. Someone would have to bribe the Se’uh’pal for better sailing directions.

Hopefully, that meant that they could never find her again.

Except that she didn’t really believe that. The Ishtan had found Daniel, and not the Turtle. Had forced Daniel to lead them to the Turtle so that they could destroy it, and then him. Even reduced by a third, she suspected that they would be able to find him again, once they had more allies.

How long did they have, her and Daniel, until trouble came again? And could the Kaniea or the Anndaing stop them when they arrived?

Nothing she had seen could stop a Septagon. Well, that was untrue, upon reflection. Spectre Twenty-Three had been perfectly willing to fly the shattered remains of WinterStar into the side of the beast like a harpoon. That would have done massive damage, especially if her old warship had managed to somehow explode. It had been threat enough to cause Vorgash to flee.

Kathra rose now and exited her cabin, still too wound up to consider sleeping. Nights like this, she frequently would pick a direction and walk long ways around the deck a few times until she was finally tired, or at least relaxed.

A quarter of the way around, she ran into Erin, walking towards her with the same saunter to her step. They met midway and stopped.

“Can’t sleep,” Kathra said as Erin started to open her mouth.

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