Chapter 9 Y-Quadrant, Karrx7 Royal Palace of the Arr’Carthians 7th day of the month of Manao in the year 7067 Federation Time Since the arrival of Lory and Charly Keela had not had the opportunity to speak with Lory alone or to find out in any way whether she, too, had bite marks. As usual Marruk was avoiding her and Amber was with Berka the whole time. Solima continued to give Keela language lessons and Charly also joined them for the lessons. She seemed to like Amano a lot, but Keela could not work out how close their relationship was. In public at least they didn’t exchange any intimacies the way Amber and Berka quite openly did. But Charly was living in Amano’s chambers and also didn’t seem to have a problem with that. “So pensive?” came a pleasant male voice next to her. Keela t

