“I am Amir Tarkos. Human. Of the Harmonizer Corp.”
“You’re human? In the Corp?”
“Yes.”
“Well. That’s something. And it’s about time the Galactics intervened in this fight.”
“Uh, well, we’re not here because of the battles. Sorry.”
“More Kriani,” Bria said.
Tarkos looked up. More bright figures were amassing on another balcony. “Yes, Commander.” He switched back to English, “Listen, Dr. Eydis, can we get out of here together, and talk face-to-face? There seem to be more Kriani massing on those balconies, and we are really not here to shoot Kriani. Better we just get out of their line of fire. We have a ship outside.”
“The hell with outside,” she said. “There’s probably an army of them outside by now.” She added in Galactic, “Get ready to run.”
“This one is an amphibia
