Chapter 14 – Dekee
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nce Matthew and his companions came back from the kiiya ità, they told the rest of the group about their discovery. Both the earthmen and the Proximians were wrong-footed, but even if they could not believe what they'd just heard from their chief and even if some of the colonizers could hardly believe what they'd heard from the General and their companions at first, after Jerry and Korin's due technical explanations they finally accepted the new reality, which was as absurd as concrete.
You could not say the same about the local inhabitants. Once K'os, who was there with his daughter and little Zack, gathered his men together in a circle, he could begin his speech, speaking to his men in the Proximian language; after hearing the news, they started to exult by makin
