A New BeginningWhen Grillick's ship landed on Vaire unopposed I had to admit it caught me by surprise. When he told me there had been no onboard stealth capability I was positive Corvus would come at us with everything he had. Grillick simply smiled his dwarvish smile and pointed at me with his sausage fingers.
“You cannot even begin to contemplate my chicanery,” he boasted, puffing his chest out like the world's ugliest peacock. “Failure to plan is a plan for failure!”
The ramp descended onto a sprawling sandy field with few trees nearby. They resembled palm trees but with thicker trunks, smaller trees and no coconuts. On the horizon I spotted foam white caps atop waves of sapphire. “I suppose I am now a firm believer in your chicanery,” I conceded.
“The ocean beyond is the kingdom of
