Chapter Nine
Hsing felt the blast to the ship's hull in the core of his being. It had been a long time since he'd felt such a blast. The first and only other time he'd felt such a disturbance was when he'd lost his parents. It wasn't only Hsing who'd lost his parents that day. He looked up at Pakua’s grim face and knew the male waded through the same memories.
On that fateful day, the entire second moon of Elysium had shaken from the blast. Hsing, who was at the edge of younghood at the time, had felt every being, every life form on the planet halt in shock. Eloheem were a peaceful breed, even the warrior Yin. They were a race of healers, protectors. It was unconscionable that any sentient life form would train a weapon upon their moon.
Back in the present, the same blast that had wroug
