Thirty
Lilah’s Advice
Tile’s friendship with Lilah had grown stronger over the years. Besides their common bond as aliens trapped together on this strange planet to which they’d become acquainted, Tile loved picking on Lilah’s brains. He had tremendous wisdom and sizeable experience. Tile always wondered how he had come about such immense knowledge. But judging from the way Lilah described his place in the galaxy among his family and kind back in his original home, he understood that this must have been a vantage point from which anyone in such a position could watch all the happenings in the universe and even the worlds beyond.
Since Uzira’s emergence as ruler of the Mugulubu, first as the Kankara and now the Maguru, Lilah was no longer in his good spirits of old. In fact, he was more
