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Excerpt #4

  Excerpt #4      When we enter town, T'kerus, you will be on my left, Olaf will be on my right. Both of you, one pace back and out from me. We will take it slowly through town to allow the crowds to move apart and let us pass. No need to start anything, and it will give pickpockets and cutpurses no room to get close to us. Also the guards will notice and word that we mean business will clear the way forward."      Olaf: "What are we to do here?"      Iriisii: "There is a woman being held in the slave market. I want her before she gets sold to anyone else. You will know why when you see her. Be sure you do not let your reaction to her show. I do not want anyone to suspect she is anything more than a casual slave purchase. Let me handle this and take your cue from mine."      Olaf nods his head, T'kerus looks like he wants to say something but changes his mind and concentrates on finishing breakfast. Iriisii thinks to herse...

Excerpt #3

 Excerpt #3      Alessia is looking at a special virtual vid screen, set up in her palatial home in Aetherius by Shai-Hulu'ud to allow her to see what is happening to Iriisii after she left Mundus. She has followed Iriisii's path fervently. She feels she is not alone and turns to see Talos.      Talos: "She is doing far greater than any of us could have expected. In a lot of ways she is just like you."      Alessia: "You have a problem with that?"      Talos: "We are not mortal now. I understand far more of what drives you now. Besides you always come home to me and as long as that is true I have no problems with you."      Alessia smiles, "Keep that up and you will never get rid of me."      Talos: "Consider it done then, I will hold you to that. But you really need to do something with the little one. He cannot survive here on his own, and it is not fair to him to have to depend on us to kee...