Chapter 40Dammen bolted upright. Breathing heavily from the torment of his recurring dream, he wiped the sweat and tears from his face, just as the bedside com unit bleeped.
"Yes yes, what is it?" he growled, dragging himself to a sitting position. Calming the uprisings that had broken out at Sigma Four on Ulstra, prior to his intercession among the feuding hordes there, had taken its toll on him for he had been solarities without sleep.
The Iapetus and Tethys villagers were a quarrelsome bunch and somehow always managed to invoke the wrath of the Inton nation, the larger of that population residing along the Zoron Delta, several hundred korons west of Harvon Nesta. Of the twenty-eight villages involved in the dispute over water rights, these two were the most troublesome.
It seemed tha
