7 Tomis landed the ship in the dock of the training pod where Zander kept his fleet of airships and his human army. He would have much preferred bringing Talia and Eslyn straight to the palatial pod, with its beauty and luxury. Give them a taste of the life Zander would probably offer them to stay. The training pod—a former Ocretion death pod—was stark in comparison. Though Zander sent regular supplies, they’d been scrambling to provide for the sudden acquisition of the nearly two hundred humans who’d been slated for death when the pod was overtaken. There weren’t enough beds or chambers for every being, though they’d distributed sleeping mats and blankets and provided food for the humans, who required constant sustenance. No, he didn’t like bringing the females and young here. It might

