15
Lily, Moon Base Arturri, Three Days Later
We were alive. We were naked. The other Titan teams had been successful and the Dark Fleet had officially withdrawn their support of Queen Raya’s claim on the Vega system.
The war had taken a turn in our favor. For the first time since Queen Raya’s initial attack, Velerion was winning.
They’d given me a medal. Darius, too. I felt like a peacock at the zoo when they lined up the three Earth women along with their Starfighter men and hung medallions the size of dinner plates around our necks. I was shocked when a man in a robe--he looked more like a monk than a politician--proudly announced that at least a dozen additional humans had nearly completed the training simulations. Twelve more earthlings would soon be on their way. He didn’t specify
