Chapter Twenty-Five
When she’d reached the new settlement at the forest Cariad had been disappointed to find that Ethan had left recently in order to meet the Leader of the fila. To pass the time until his return, Cariad had volunteered to take a shuttle to the Mistral to help transport the young children and babies off the ship.
Aboard the Guardians’ vessel the atmosphere was buzzing with quiet excitement, which was odd considering that the earliest estimated date for the hostile aliens’ return was rapidly approaching. Cariad guessed that the positive feeling was partly due to the fact that the crush of living aboard the ship was soon to be over. The colonists who had endured the cramped conditions would be going ‘home.’ The heavily pregnant women and new mothers, the child carers and t
