It took nearly two days, but the company finally began to calm down. Pheyus had worked relentlessly to help regain order. He placed himself completely at the disposal of Elleshas, and worked straight through without rest.
Since all of the Stellars were needed to work within their normally assigned subgroups, Pheyus was ordered to handle the overall situation. His first priority was to find strong adult males who were not too badly distraught to function. He began placing them strategically around the company’s perimeter, with orders to keep the group together at all costs. This had worked well. Once given a purpose, even some of the more rattled Stenella had come through and gotten down to business.
His second effort was more of a logistics problem than anything else. Since the company
