Chapter 2
Kanavirius System, Xevus3
On the streets of Betzlawk
8th day of the month of Jakus in the year 7067
Federation Time
Keela felt as if she were in a science-fiction movie or in an awful dream. Some of the creatures that she saw walking through the streets of Betzlawk, the main business town and capital of Xevus3, a desert planet, were truly grotesque. For example there were some that had shaggy blue fur and would have reminded Keela of the Cookie Monster on Sesame Street if it had not been for the disturbing fact that they had two heads and four arms. Other creatures had long necks that they could extend and detract, with bumps on their heads such as giraffes have. Some were lizard-like, others looked like over-sized insects. Many had humanoid bodies with greater or lesser de
