Veron Country Ashbu Village: Nolen couldn’t feel anything below his waist. He felt like a herd of Kogans had run over him. What had happened? Where was he? Nolen turned around in the bed and found himself to be in the royal camp. He could feel the Egav tube inserted in him to transfer Egav and fluids, which were usually used for patients who were unconscious for weeks. Was he unconscious for weeks? Things slowly came back to him. Zube… Zube Jour.. He had lost his best friend, Zube, all in the name of war—his grandfather, who all but discarded Zube’s death as some small inconvenience. Anger burned in him at the thought of his grandfather, who had encouraged him ever since he was a child to be prepared for war instead of letting him play with the children of his own age and do t

