Chapter Seventeen
“They are not warriors!” Torak growled again at his father.
All the men had been stunned as the women told them they were just performers for a thing called a circus. It was what they did to support themselves. They explained they did not have a male to take care of them and that it was not an uncommon thing in their world.
Women often lived and worked all alone without males in their lives. Their world did have warriors, even female ones, but they fought using different weapons and one had to go into the military which none of them had ever done. When River explained how she had come aboard the Tearnat’s warship, how she had hidden in the hopes of finding a way to release her friends, and how they had taken turns learning more about the ship and stashing items they th
